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Article #2015New Encryption - a Challenge
From: Erik.Lindano
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:45
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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