Other Directory Sites: SeekWonder | Directory Owners Forum
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:13:59
Thomas Roessler (roessler@guug.de)
Wed, 16 Sep 1998 08:21:49 +0200
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 04:54:47PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>> Just think of it as a class of cipher with different
>> pro's and con's from public key or complexity based
>> ciphers.
> Just think of it as snake oil, and we'll all be happier.
Snake oil has it's pro's and con's as well, at least if
your enemy uses it. :->
But actually, provided they have managed to gather enough
random bits on usable media, what they do sounds pretty
similar to Maurers stream cipher (see Schneier, 17.10),
combined with some shared-secret authentication system.
Anyway, the wording of a "virtual key-stream of 10^30
bits" doesn't sound like real random data.
tlr
--
Thomas Roessler · 74a353cc0b19 · dg1ktr · http://home.pages.de/~roessler/
2048/CE6AC6C1 · 4E 04 F0 BC 72 FF 14 23 44 85 D1 A1 3B B0 73 C1
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:13:59