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Re: Misty???




Adam Back wrote:
> Tim May wrote:
> | I wouldn't call Misty "snake oil." But it's also been thoroughly taken
> | apart and shown to be weak. Importantly, it was submitted by Mitsubishi for
> | peer review.
> 
> Could you provide a pointer to the analysis paper?

Adam, you should know better than to ask.  Everyone knows you can't
trust a bigot to do cryptography.  Tim "Chop Chop" May's opinions about
Misty are based not on the strength of the cipher, but on the ethnicity
of the creator.

On Thu, 11 Sep 1997 22:09:15, Tim May wrote:
> At 9:30 PM -0700 9/11/97, Nobuki Nakatuji wrote:
> >Does anybody know MITSUBISHI MISTY algorithm ?
> >If you know it,Please send e-mail to me.
> >
> 
> You want me play Misty for you? You send me $2500, I play Misty.
> 
> Like you do, I take much money, chop chop.
> 
> (Now shut the fuck up and get the hell off our list with your demands for
> money to explain your bullshit one time pad scheme.)