Re: own cypher-algorithm - TaShiKai

tomstdenis_at_gmail.com
Date: 06/30/05 

Date: 30 Jun 2005 06:23:26 -0700

Gregory G Rose wrote:
> In article <42c313c6$1@news.auckland.ac.nz>, none <""bob\"@(none)"> wrote:
> >Only 200 hours flying time and your a commercial pilot.
>
> What rubbish. Sure, the minimum possible time in
> your logbook is about 200 hours, depending what
> country you're in. But you're ignoring the
> thousands of hours of study and flight
> preparation, not to mention medical
> qualifications, not to mention tests. When you
> finish that time, you're just about ready to be
> paid a pittance to deliver medical samples from
> small towns. With the right aptitude, and 6-12
> months of doing nothing else, sure, a beginner
> could get to the point of doing meaningful
> cryptanalysis.

Agreed. My brother is doing pilot training [almost got private
license] and to get to a capt. of an airline [for instance] you need
5000 hours therabouts. You need [iirc] 1000 hours to be a co-pilot or
flight tech. In short, no serious airliner would fly captains with
only 200 hours.

On the crypto front, I'd say it's not just reading but using the
material. I know I wasn't comfortable with giving out crypto advice
[professionally] until at least two years ago [5 years after I started
my adhoc partially guided tour of cryptography].

If you already have a strong enough math background [which I didn't]
then you can get through to a entry-level experience point [e.g. sorta
below where I'm at now] in a year if you study constantly and practice
the techniques [e.g. actually go out and write software or hardware or
both].

Tom