IPG Algorith Broken!

Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM dlv at bwalk.dm.com
Mon Nov 25 23:41:22 PST 1996


paul at fatmans.demon.co.uk writes:
> >It seems to me they're putting an additional layer of stuff ("OTP") between
> >the key generation and the actual encoding, so what's the problem with that,
> >as a concept?
>
> Well for a start it`s not a one time pad because that requires a
> totally real random pad. They have a stream cipher, as for whether it
> is any good or not I would normally not trust a man with the talent
> for bullshit Don Wood has.

I suppose Paul doesn't consider his own ruminations about "brute force attacks
against one-time pads" to be "bullshit".

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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
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