Re: Sociological/Psychological Phenomenon
From: David A. Scott (daVvid_a_scott_at_email.com)
Date: 06/06/05
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Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 02:55:20 +0000 (UTC)
David C. Ullrich <ullrich@math.okstate.edu> wrote in
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>
> Maybe it's the fact that an amateur _can_ come up with
> significant new results in those fields?
>
>
The problem of coming up with new ideas in crypto
is that there is no why to test them. The so called click
will not recognize good crypto when they see it since they
can't really test it. Yet they are quick to jump down most
amateurs first attempt when they do a simple xor with a short
key.
Take scott19u for example. When some expert claimed his
whizbang slide attack made mincemeat out of it. The guy was wrong
he latter stated he really couldn't understand my code.
But this only occured after someone tried to do the slide attack
and could not. Yet even today the click labels scott19u snake oil
since they only remember the so called expert claiming it was
such.
The one place you can test code is in compression. When Matt
Timmermans combined a bijective compress with full block AES
I even wrote to the people who invented it and one actaully
wrote back saying you couldn't make AES using full blocks
bijective to any size byte files. I don't think the so called
experts even understand bijective padding. But give them time
they will write it up as if they invented it.
More people seem to use my bijective arithmetic coder arb255
than my cyrpto. Yet even here I get into arguments from honest
people who don't think you can use arithmetic or even huffman
for bijective file compression. Yet most eventually come around
since its so easy to show. But crypto is not easy to show so
the experts circle around themselves patting each other on the
back saying they are better than anyone else.
As an example over the years I stated that unlike most crypto
if one has one byte output file from BICOM you have no idea what
the input was. Many small minded people think that it has to be
1 of what they think is 256 cases. There closed minds can't grasp
that even if this single output byte is all zeros. There are thousands
of possible input files (actually way more than trillion billions)
all you do to find one is change the key. They use bicom to get the
input file that maps to that single byte of all zero. Check with
the key both ways it works. Make up a new key notice it creates a file
that encrypts to the single byte. Change to thousands of keys each one
goes back to a valid file thats different and yet encrypts to the
same single byte of all zeros. What I stated here is very easy to
test yet the dolts here are so full of themselves they will claim
there is at most 256 possible input messages. They are to lazy to
get off there asses and check. If there to dam lazy to check something
this easy to check how the hell can they judge a novices crypto.
Except when they make the early mistake most make at which time the
pompous expert will say so you have to leave the real cyrpt to us we
don't want you.
David A. Scott
-- My Crypto code http://bijective.dogma.net/crypto/scott19u.zip http://www.jim.com/jamesd/Kong/scott19u.zip old version My Compression code http://bijective.dogma.net/ **TO EMAIL ME drop the roman "five" ** Disclaimer:I am in no way responsible for any of the statements made in the above text. For all I know I might be drugged. As a famous person once said "any cryptograhic system is only as strong as its weakest link"
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