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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:18:53 ADT
Dana W. Albrecht (dwa@corsair.com)
Tue, 23 Jun 1998 10:17:44 -0700 (PDT)
Bruce Schneier <schneier@counterpane.com> wrote:
> I agree with both of you. Of course it makes no sense to play by the
> rules of these silly challenges. When I suggested breaking this
> particular product, it never occurred to me that we would be playing by
> the rules or that we would even collect any reward. I'm just a little
> bored, and I thought some easy cryptanalysis targets would be fun.
>
> Fundamentally, it is impossible to stay ahead of these people. They
> can invent dumb ciphers faster than anyone can break them. They can
> make trivial modifications in dumb ciphers faster than anyone can break
> them.
>
> I think it is worthwhile to break some of the pseudo-scientific crypto
> nonsense that companies are spouting: virtual matrix encryption,
> RPK, pseudo-one time pads, 16Kbit keys, chaos-theory encryption.
^^^
My five minute take on this was that it was Diffie-Hellman/ElGamal warmed
over and obfuscated, making it more "pointless" than "nonsense." Am I
misinformed?
Dana W. Albrecht
dwa@corsair.com
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:18:53 ADT