Re: Meganet on Cryptogram again
From: Mike Curry (mcurry8173_at_rogers.com)
Date: 09/17/03
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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 04:41:36 GMT
I want to have a crack at it with my Gridontap.com project, but
"Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Benjamin Choi writes:
>
> > But looking at Meganet's clever Terms And Conditions,
> > one sees that the contest winner can only win if he
> > - Breaks VME
> > - Provides an explanation which satisfies Meganet (who knows what
> > will or will not satisfy them?)
>
> It is only necessary to break the algorithm. That would be enough to
> convince potential customers of its insecurity, whether Meganet accepts
> the evidence or not.
>
> > The difficulty in breaking VME is because VME is closed source and
> > because it's such a complicated algorithm that no one is going to
> > bother to cryptanalyse it.
>
> So it's a security algorithm after all? If nobody can be bothered to
> break it, then it is effectively secure, no matter what it's theoretical
> weaknesses.
>
> If it is really as bad as people say, it should be trivial to break. If
> nobody is trying to break it, then messages encrypted with it are indeed
> secure.
>
> --
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