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Re: New Crypto Application
Guillotine <[email protected]> writes:
> Greetings fellow Cyphers...
I guess that doesn't include me, but greetings anyway.
> I'm creating a new _text_ cryptography program.
Will a user be able to uuencode a binary file and pretend that it's text?
> The encryption algorithm,
> using a symmetrical is going to be as strong as legally allowed,
Better hurry - there are no legal restrictions in the U.S. on how hard you can
make it for internal use, but that may change soon.
> and after
> copyrighting the program,
It's copyrighted the moment you've written it. Some people spend $10
on registering their copyright with the Library of Congress. You can
even file your source code there.
> I'm going to release the source code and explain
> everything about it (since it can be reverse engineered anyways).
That's a commendable idea. However if your program will use reasonable
strng encryption, you should talk to a knowledgeable lawyer before
publishing it in a way which might be construed as "exporting" it.
> The
> reason I'm sending this e-mail to you is my request for more knowledge, and
> if you're like me, then you have an extreme thirst for knowledge!
You sound like you could use some.
[snip]
> I was going to call the program AlphaNumeric
> Encryption, but that says pretty much nothing... I might just call it
> something like Cipher Pad (or Cypher Pad if nobody cares that I use
> "cypher") , since it's only for text encryption. If you have a better idea
> for a name for this program, then please suggest it to me.
How about "One-Time Sanitary Pad"?
(Note to the list: I have been having little problems indeed (some of my
systems hacks for OS/2 no longer working under Microsquish) but they're
almost entirely fixed or rewritten now. Microsquish sucks indeed. I'm
glad I have a backup OS/2 box.)
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<a href="mailto:[email protected]">Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM</a>
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