Encryption Program

? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} dformosa at st.nepean.uws.edu.au
Tue Oct 14 03:57:23 PDT 1997



-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

On Mon, 13 Oct 1997 semprini at theschool.com wrote:

> Hello. I just posted an encryption program on the web. It uses a key-
> generated pseudorandom stream of characters that get XORed with the 
> plaintext to produce the cyphertext.

Why do peaple keep posting examples of this lame cryptosystem?  I mean how
meany examples of XOR with the output of a pydorandom strame do we have to
see? 

Semprini please find some good books on Crypto (and read the sci.crypt
FAQ) to see why what you have done is week.

- -- 
Please excuse my spelling as I suffer from agraphia see the url in my header. 
Never trust a country with more peaple then sheep.  ex-net.scum and proud
You Say To People "Throw Off Your Chains" And They Make New Chains For
Themselves? --Terry Pratchett

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: 2.6.3i
Charset: noconv

iQCVAwUBNENE1qQK0ynCmdStAQGoQAQA1HWIeTuCIhOKSc+owY7tkgp/ENlIXy5r
J3Wy5pF7JuopRrR7F0xoj3Y3hv/IAcXFD2jhjziAGdqiqQR+hnTQWJZHROB/G+4v
osAFM1v/2aOTV8gLca+xRDYpVVt+wWy0dWOHYrKIebEldnnhFVJp5fRSngdjqcjY
yLB7BqVFFBk=
=RQN1
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----







More information about the cypherpunks-legacy mailing list