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Re: Padded Data

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From: David Vincenzetti
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1992 15:16
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In <1992Jul31.172627.1876@cs.cornell.edu> wayner@cs.cornell.edu (Peter Wayner) writes:

>Webbge@che17.ncsu.EDU (Greg Earl Webb) writes:
>A guy names William Simon (email address: alain@elevia.UUCP) posted
>some stuff long ago about "braiding" messages. Essentially you took
>two streams of data (a and b) and a pseudo-random source. Everytime a
>1 came from the source you took a block of data from a and everytime a
>0 came from the pseudo-random source you took a block of data from b.
>Reconstructing a and b is possible if you have the same pseudo-random
>bit stream. 

Yes, that was *very* interesting and I followed with great attention the
whole discussion, some months ago.

I am wondering where William Simon has gone and if any program implementing
braid-streams cryptography is available. Otherwise I am planning to write it
on my own.
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From: vince@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (David Vincenzetti)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: Padded Data
Keywords: pascal crypt
Message-ID: <1992Aug2.151652.25094@ghost.dsi.unimi.it>
Date: 2 Aug 92 15:16:52 GMT
References: <1992Jul31.135011.14195@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> <1992Jul31.153719.28374@ncsu.edu> <1992Jul31.172627.1876@cs.cornell.edu>
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