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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:02
Bruce Schneier (schneier@counterpane.com)
Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:16:29 -0600
At 09:04 AM 1/11/99 +0100, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
>Anonymous wrote:
>>
>> Mok-Kong Shen writes:
>>
>> > In the above I have made a humble attempt to sketch one possible way
>> > of obtaining a pseudo-OTP. I should appreciate your opinions on that
>> > and suggestions of other ways of advantageously generating such for
>> > applications in the future 56-bit environment.
>>
>> Mok-Kong, you seem to have a learning style where, rather than studying
>> the literature, you come up with your own ideas and publish them, hoping
>> to learn by the corrections. But since you are just an inexperienced
>> beginner, your ideas are not very good. It takes time and effort for
>> other people to read and comment on them. It would be better if you
>> would read more and post less.
>>
>> The other problem is that people who are new to the field may read your
>> long and wordy messages and conclude that you know what you are talking
>> about. They may then come to erroneous conclusions based on your writing.
>> You should qualify everything you write by saying something at the top
>> about being a student or a beginner in the field, so that people know
>> that you are unfamiliar with the basics.
>
>Thank you for your expert opinion. Do you think it will be o.k.
>if I in future put a disclaimer to my publications to the effect that
>I am no expert and that any opinion I express can be wrong?
Honestly, no. The suggestion in the first sentence of his response is a
good one.
Why post this? Why bother creating a stream cipher without the experience of
design and analysis? What is the purpose?
Bruce
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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:02