I had tended to not take too seriously the posts of someone who signs himself as "Uhh...this is Joe,"
That was probably a good idea.
but the reasoning he displays below makes me take him more seriously:
Ooh, bad move! :)
...the amount of time should be replaced by "effort expended."
That was what I meant, although my wording of it was sort of ambiguous; "years of analysis," "analysis-hours," etc. refer to the time the cryptographers actually spent on studying the cipher, not the time elapsed since the cipher's release. [...]
--Tim May
The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^2,976,221 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."
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