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kocherp@leland.Stanford.EDU (Paul Carl Kocher) writes:
> It sounds to me like this "encryption" system just involves XORing
> random numbers onto the plaintext, which would explain why the program
> is very short, cannot use keys, and produces different cryptotext when
> run multiple times (different random number seeds stored at the beginning
> of the cryptotext).

Ah, very good. Does indeed sound like that.

Perhaps the originator (whom, after all, may be misrepresented by the
poster) has not designed security-by-obscurity, but simple obscurity-
by-obscurity, a perfectly valid and useful concept. But not what we
mean by cryptography.

Cheers,
Rob

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