I think it might be fun to start up a collection of snake oil cryptographic methods and cryptanalytic attacks against them. It would be more fun for me than crossword puzzles, and educational for all the would-be cryptographers.
I'd like to start with the really simple stuff; classical cryptography, systems with clean and obvious "breaks". Although I find the magazine entertaining to read, I'm finding that 2600 Magazine is a particularly good source of this brand of snake oil. So, when you find a particularly obnoxious dilettante going on about his bone-headed unbreakable scheme, please forward it to me and I'll see about breaking it, and then publish the schemes and the results on a web site for publicly "educating" them. Honestly, there's probably no better way to educate people than to see schemes submitted and broken, and I'm not sure there's a good site for it, although there are plenty of books. Unfortunately, these types won't be bothered to buy books since they already know everything. If you have a break of some scheme you wish to contribute, please do forward me a URL and I'll link to it. Perhaps this should be a wiki? I'm revamping my web site, so the crypto wiki has been down temporarily but will be back up. -- <URL:http://www.subspacefield.org/~travis/> -><- dharma <>< advaita For a good time on my UBE blacklist, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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