Re: How much must be revealed

On Feb 23, 10:05 pm, Hilltop...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
If I have an encryption program, is it possible to describe the
algorithm sufficiently to give people confidence in its security
without revealing the source code? Or must it be given away before any
worth is appreciated?

Crypto is a strange thing. If you wrote the best code in the world
and your a noname in the inside group it would never be recognized
by the public. It might be stolen by the NSA types but that does
little to give it general use. In fact if you try to get it used some
so called
frontman may come along and say somthing about his wez bang side
slither attack makes mouse meat of it and that would be the end even
if no one tries to use such an attack on your code. As a beginner your
only hope is to get it spread is through some slick PR advertiseing
anf
then its makes lillle diffference it actually secure or not. In fact
it its poor
but not so poor the average bright 8th greader could break it than its
ideal. After all the goal of governements is to be able to read what
the
common people or others try to keep secret and you would be helping
them.

Second the odds of an outsiderr writting good code the first time is
rare
they usaually first thry some form of simple xoring of a password it
often
takes a few tries to get it right.

If you wanat to see crypto that at least on this site is considered
weak
but never broken check out scott19u and yes it took a few times to
perfect
it. But I think its good.


David A. Scott
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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/
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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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