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New Encryption - a Challenge

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From: Erik.Lindano
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:45
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Writes Ken Pizzini:
 
 > > You are absolutely wrong.
 >
 > Oh, c'mon now.  If the scheme is to be used by more than a small 
 > handful of people then at least the executable will be available 
 > for analysis.  And with a suitible effort at disassembly/
 > decompiling it can be analysed for the underlying algolrithm.
 
 You are thinking in very conventional ways. Perhaps we use a
 hexadecimal Ouija board to point at letters and don't really know 
 WHAT it'll do next... :-)  It's determined by the spirits. 
 A spiritual key. (Actually, I have been authorized to say now that
 NuCrypt relies on the use of embedded 2048-bit shifting keys.)
 
 > Your proposed modification of the prize to include airfare in 
 > addition to dinner is much better incentive -- before you were 
 > suggesting that someone spend their time breaking your system and 
 > spending hundreds of dollars of their own money in order to claim 
 > a "free" dinner.  Didn't sound like much of an inducement to me.
 
 OK, I think you're right, it wasn't attractive. Such mercantile 
 minds. Sheesh. No cryptolibido.  All those limp mental muscles.  
 So, we'll make the prize a little better, then.
 

--- Maximus 2.00
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