Cryptology Arguments - adacrypt



1 The spacing of the integers on an arbitrary number may have any
magnitude and be in any direction provided the number line is
straight. Every space must be equal of course. The upshot of this in
cryptology is that any cryptanalyst is quite safe in taking any number
line as his starting point for conjecture of the problem of decrypting
the ciphertext that he has stolen. There is no danger of going wrong
at this early stage in his deliberations and he may next contemplate a
suitable algorithm from his toolbox of prepared algorithms already
known to him in numerical analysis, or, as is more likely, he may
design one of his own without any constraint of integer spacing or
direction of line as a prerequisite for success.

2) Not so when the line is a directed numberline and one that is
defined explicitly by its vector equation. The spacing of the line is
then a function of the direction-vector of the numberline which of
course is unique for the occasion. Clearly, the cryptanalyst has a
much more difficult task in selecting an algorithm that he might use
to hack into the number line. This is an advantage of vector data
over scalar data and is one that simply speaks for itself -
correction, not just speaking, it is screaming.- Adacrypt

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