Can we please not post everyone's snake oil cryptography and ask whether it's possibly true? Read the Snake Oil FAQ and don't post this sort of thing again.
It's like cops arresting jaywalkers... don't we have better things to take up brain cycles and/. space with?
This idea DOES have some merits, however; in combination with a modern cryptosystem, it would add greatly to the obscurity of the cyphertext and help prevent its being analyzed.
IF that were true (a separate issue), any slight incremental improvement to already strong cryptosystems would be negated by the woefully absurd key distribution requirements. Hardly a win.
Assuming some details, this idea (taking bits of "pad" from a comparitively large pool) has been proposed several times by fly-by-nite companies, usually along with some ciphertext and a $10,000 challenge to break it. Hee-haw.
What would I do? Read this and reconsider. Then pay Counterpane to review your work under NDA. Then, and only then, should you consider the work worth any further effort.
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Can we please not post everyone's snake oil cryptography and ask whether it's possibly true?
/. space with?
Read the Snake Oil FAQ and don't post this sort of thing again.
It's like cops arresting jaywalkers... don't we have better things to take up brain cycles and
Assuming some details, this idea (taking bits of "pad" from a comparitively large pool) has been proposed several times by fly-by-nite companies, usually along with some ciphertext and a $10,000 challenge to break it. Hee-haw.
-some cypherpunk