Re: ... challenge?

From: Kai (nospamkai@webmail.co.za)
Date: 03/05/03 

From: "Kai" <nospamkai@webmail.co.za>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 17:05:40 +0200

refer to 'content rather than key'. If everyone thinks I'm stupid
it should be easy to change my ciphertext back to plaintext, if I
provide the algorythm and other info.

regards

Kai

<ekj@ekj.vestdata.no> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.50.0303051541370.12290-100000@localhost.localdomain...
> On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Kai wrote:
>
> > what would be required to truly test the effectiveness of an
> > algorythm?
>
> As a minimum, a detailed description of the algorithm, preferably with
> an example-implementation and a few test-vectors so that alternative
> implementations can be tested.
>
> For people to bother, you should also provide some reason why this
> algorithm is interesting. what does it try to do that existing
> algorithms do not already do ?
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Eivind Kjørstad

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