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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:02
Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de)
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 13:37:45 +0100
SDN wrote:
>
> The fact that the experts use a given terminology is probably enough reason
> to use it all by itself.
>
> In this particular case, there are (at least) two additonal reasons to avoid
> using the term "OTP" in discussing stream cyphers:
>
> 1) Con artists selling junk cryptosystems frequently do that. You don't want
> to sound like them.
>
> 2) The interesting property of a one-time-pad system is that the number of
> bits of key is as large as the number of bits of plaintext. Comparing
> any system that doesn't use a longer key for bigger plaintexts with a
> one time pad isn't particularly useful.
>
> I find that stream cypher (as in stream of bits to xor with) is a fairly
> intuitive description. Your milage obviously varies, but I suggest you use
> the standard terminology anyway.
>
> I'm pretty sure you'd lose more people than you gained, and you'd definitely
> lose the people you actually want comments from.
Based on what you said (as far as I understood) I'll suggest now the
replacement term 'a new stream encryption scheme intended to
achieve as best as possible the functionality of an ideal OTP'.
Does that satisfy all people who have sent in comments in matters
of terminology? If no, please suggest better terms. If yes, please
kindly use a text editor to do the replacement (i.e. change all
occurences of 'pseudo-OTP' to the above term) in my original post
and kindly soon contribute your discussions on the topic.
Thanking you very much beforehand,
M. K. Shen
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:02