On Sep 7, 2013, at 7:56 PM, Perry E. Metzger wrote: >> I'm not as yet seeing that a block cipher with a backdoor is a public >> key system, > > Then read the Blaze & Feigenbaum paper I posted a link to. It makes a > very good case for that, one that Jerry unaccountably does not seem to > believe. Blaze seemed to still believe the result as of a few days ago. I've given quite a bit of argument as to why the result doesn't really say what it seems to say. Feel free to respond to the actual counterexamples I gave, rather than simply say I "unaccountably" don't believe the paper.
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