Re: Data encryption 360 degrees the nsa cannot break -- 01

From: Walter Roberson (roberson_at_ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca)
Date: 12/26/03 

Date: 26 Dec 2003 04:41:09 GMT

In article <a834090e.0312251728.4018c6df@posting.google.com>,
Roger Wilco <netcrazy@charter.net> wrote:
:if you took the piece of paper and folded it and folded it and folded
:it the 0 and 1 would cancel each out and if you keep folding the piece
:of paper too the smallest you would have 4 numbers left if 1+1 =
:nothing and 0 + 0 = nothing 1+0=1 and 0+1+0
: 01 now if the key new the folding times you could send 2 bytes over
:the internet and unzip a
:100 zetabyte program you computer could store all the programs ever
:written but just need the key to unzip

The information about how many times you had folded is still
"information", and in order to unlock the encryption you would
have to transmit that number as well. When you do the math,
it turns out that on average you need *at least* as long a number
to represent the number of foldings, as you needed to represent
the original document. 

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