Eric Hughes asked about the piece of software I'm cryptanalyzing...

Could you post a more complete pointer to this?

The program is "ncrypt". Available on garbo.uwasa.fi, /pc/crypt/ncrypt31.zip About pub/cypherpunks/cryptanalysis... I'll post anything useful that I write...

The directory is there as much to inspire the writing of such software as it is to distribute it.

Point taken! -cire