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Re: New Encryption - a Challenge

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From: jason 'Think!' steiner
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 20:14
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Erik.Lindano@ofa123.fidonet.org writes:
> 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.)

you're ignoring the point. if the algorithm is going to run on a computer
it has to use "conventional ways". there are no hexadecimal Ouija 
board devices available for computer i know of. (if you've developed 
one, great, but you haven't claimed that yet, so this is a red 
herring.) any applications written to use this method still have to 
use the good ol' machine language.

anything that can be understood by a computer can be understood by a
human, given enough effort. -that- is the point. your algorithm
will eventually be known. 

jason, who doesn't care a bit about NuCrypt, but finds these claims
	rather absurd.

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