-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- writes Hal Finney:
Now, maybe this particular fractal cryptosystem idea will actually work well. I don't know; I haven't seen it. But the point is that these complex types of systems have not provided a good foundation for crypto- graphy in the past.
(First, sorry for bringing up an old subject, I was at SC93, and now have 500 messages to surf through) I read an article in Electronic Engineering Times a while back (summer, I think), about some researchers doing encryption with chaos... they had two decryption chips (I think they used DSPs) that had a synchronized chaotic stream going between them, which they both used to [en,de]crypt the data... This seems kind of silly, since (assuming an intelligent adversary), they could just tap the chaotic flow, and start listening... Am I missing something? - -nate - -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Nate Sammons nate@VIS.ColoState.Edu (303) 491-1578 | | Colorado State University -- Computer Visualization Laboratory | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+