Re: Meganet on Cryptogram again

From: Mxsmanic (mxsmanic_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/18/03 

Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:19:07 +0200

David Wagner writes:

> If so, who cares? We already have plenty of useful and secure
> algorithms. We don't need any more.

Then why do cryptographers keep inventing new ones? 

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