-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 05:32 PM 3/19/96 GMT, you wrote:
First let us describe the IPG system in more conventional C:
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So this algorithm is easily broken with known plaintext.
I seem to remember some sales named daemon stating that if anyone could break their system, the prize would be the company. I imagine that the continuing rants from IPG are a means of devaluing the company beyond it's already measly worth, thus making the company unworth claiming. It's obvious that the system has been trivially broken after a day and a half of being semi-published. Is there any other point to this? I could as easily generate an OTP pulling pages at random from the New England Journal Of Medicine or the Microsoft Visual C++ Programmer's Guide and XORing the text with my plaintext... But that still leaves me in the cipher.obscurity = cipher.security realm, doesn't it? Think we could sell it??? Of course, as long as it was someone else choosing the pages, I could trust it, right? (Damn, which smiley is it for sarcasm?) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMVCqic1+l8EKBK5FAQHLsgf/SnREwZgJa+mDGgeBi5GsMMyBxheWz0n2 Gl6CfPJ8KlSo80a4o+uQEXXVOw4di0T2zC4swXA8OJ0IvtOaIV0fYSYU0fpjZ4JG yxAfcg/NDkbP6G8WBUC/29JG4p29EyKsZHDVu68SNlyJp6BqWCzBa5WSRrtPd0b7 NLwAnMozdYpV67Q7/uldddm5esIESxHJduCumqlvmOWcP/n3T4IL/B4O9RhC6wXJ 2wa3QO7OMqugl/vJ7WwDLhCDqaHwVDF+wC4r8T25E0LrFuEEFO39otOIebVZF1y6 o16M+UoDZzxASmSTUcyNsT1GohF4ZgSS5FODYGgMYAc/CDzE6jQq1Q== =TVwd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ted Garrett <teddygee@visi.net> http://www.visi.net/~teddygee "Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." Thomas Jefferson