Re: determining algorithm used

From: Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen_at_t-online.de)
Date: 10/30/04


Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 19:56:28 +0200


WTShaw_1@hotmail.com wrote:

> One could misdirect an attack to another cipher by saying falsely is
> what it isn't or bury the quest for cipher identity by looking very
> ordinary like using only 26 different characters in five character
> groups. As might be recalled, I have worked out fairly good ways to
> do the later from any existing ciphertext of any N set.

Misleading the opponent is certainly a 'legitimate' means in
the realm of security. In the same vein, entirely nonsensical
stuff could be rendered 'cryptic'. There is a rather recent
paper in Cryptologia arguing for the hypothesis that the
Voynich manuscript is a pure hoax.

M. K. Shen



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