Re: [liberationtech] scrambler

2013-08-30 Thread konfkukor
I'm really astonished. The method he uses to implement the one-time pad is plain ridiculous. A complete lookup table which maps each possible byte to another is consumed per byte transferred, making the pad 256 times (which could even be optimized to 255) larger than the message. The author has

Re: [liberationtech] scrambler

2013-08-30 Thread Michael Hicks
To: liberationtech liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 6:33 AM Subject: Re: [liberationtech] scrambler I'm really astonished. The method he uses to implement the one-time pad is plain ridiculous. A complete lookup table which maps each possible byte to another is consumed per byte

Re: [liberationtech] scrambler

2013-08-30 Thread Michael Hicks
scramblerencrypt...@yahoo.com To: liberationtech liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 1:43 PM Subject: Re: [liberationtech] scrambler it's the purpose so that it is Unable to be hacked. trying to use complete privacy for the American people. It's the same thing used

Re: [liberationtech] scrambler

2013-08-30 Thread Bryan C. Geraghty
...@lists.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Hicks Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 12:51 PM To: Michael Hicks; liberationtech Subject: Re: [liberationtech] scrambler Thank you so much we appreciate your opinion and facts. would you have any recommendations? something we could fix? the whle purpose of this software

Re: [liberationtech] scrambler

2013-08-30 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
:* Michael Hicks scramblerencrypt...@yahoo.com *To:* liberationtech liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu *Sent:* Friday, August 30, 2013 1:43 PM *Subject:* Re: [liberationtech] scrambler it's the purpose so that it is Unable to be hacked. trying to use complete privacy for the American people. It's the same

Re: [liberationtech] scrambler

2013-08-30 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 12:15:17PM -0700, Michael Hicks wrote: ok so I guess I just send u guys the links and u check out my software and Vet it? This was made for people to be able to protect their privacy and the NSA can't hack it No One can it's impossible. all the information is at

Re: [liberationtech] scrambler

2013-08-30 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Andy Isaacson a...@hexapodia.org wrote: This is incorrect. A one-time pad needs to be the same size as the message being encrypted, not 256 times as large. OTP implementations such as onetime (http://red-bean.com/onetime/) implement this properly, using one

Re: [liberationtech] scrambler

2013-08-30 Thread Sandy Harris
Michael Hicks scramblerencrypt...@yahoo.com wrote: Thank you so much we appreciate your opinion and facts. would you have any recommendations? Start by reading up on one-time pads. Probably the best source is Marcus Ranum's FAQ: http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/papers/otp-faq/

[liberationtech] scrambler

2013-08-29 Thread Michael Hicks
ok so I guess I just send u guys the links and u check out my software and Vet it? This was made for people to be able to protect their privacy and the NSA can't hack it No One can it's impossible. all the information is at scrambler.webs.com -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives

Re: [liberationtech] scrambler

2013-08-29 Thread Seth David Schoen
Michael Hicks writes: ok so I guess I just send u guys the links and u check out my software and Vet it? This was made for people to be able to protect their privacy and the NSA can't hack it No One can it's impossible. all the information is at scrambler.webs.com It's true that no one