stewarts@ix.netcom.com wrote:
At 11:50 PM 9/8/97 -0500, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
I think that what Nobuku described is not a private key system (because keys cannot be reused), but rather an approach to generating one time pads.
Arrrgh! No! If you read the early references, it's clearly a stream cypher, and used as such. The same bitstream is generated at both ends. Pretending it's a True Random One-Time Pad would be snake oil, but that's your mistake, not Nobuku's or Gao's. It's true that keys cannot be reused, but that's the same for RC4.
Well, I did not say that it was true random one time pad. :)
Do you think means of generating one time pads have been lacking? I think that one more good way of doing it would not hurt. And one more non-truly-random way of doing it just puts more snake oil on the shelf. If there are any bytes that are correlated and not independent, it's Bad Pad.
Tim May wrote:
Why do you think a private key system, even one based on trendy buzzwords (e,g, "chaos") is interesting? Crypto mathematics is always interesting, if written well, and if it's the first time you've seen something rather than Yet Another LCM PRNG.
- Igor.