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Perry E. Metzger (perry@piermont.com)
13 Jan 1999 12:54:08 -0500
Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de> writes:
> Bruce Schneier wrote:
> > 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?
>
> I suspect that you are in some sense continuing here your Memo
> that we discussed quite a bit in sci.crypt.
Mr. Shen, you have two choices here.
One of them is to say, "okay, I'm an amateur, it would be good, if I
want to understand this field, to read a lot, study, work hard, and
learn".
The other is to say "I'm just going to blunder about, invent my own
terminology, take random stabs in the dark at inventing things, and
hope that people will educate me by taking lots of time out of their
busy lives to correct me when I could have just gone off and read a
book or taken their advice the first out of fifty times I bothered
them."
Which do you think is going to be more successful here?
ALL of us were once new to this field. However, most of us who've
survived in it didn't start by trying your path. I suspect you aren't
going to succeed in getting very far unless you try the other path.
Perry
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:02