more snake oil? [WAS: New uncrackable(?) encryption technique]

2002-10-25 Thread Udhay Shankar N
[Moderator's note: so long as society continues to turn a blind eye to the harvesting of serpents for lipids, the international trade in snake oil will continue unabated. -- Perry] On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 15:45:58 +0100, in comp.security.misc Multiplex Photonics [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have

Re: more snake oil? [WAS: New uncrackable(?) encryption technique]

2002-10-25 Thread bear
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Nicko van Someren wrote: [Moderator's note: so long as society continues to turn a blind eye to the harvesting of serpents for lipids, the international trade in snake oil will continue unabated. -- Perry] I appreciate that as cryptographers we should be rightly

Re: more snake oil? [WAS: New uncrackable(?) encryption technique]

2002-10-25 Thread Ed Gerck
bear wrote: The implication is that they have a hard problem in their bioscience application, which they have recast as a cipher. Their problem is not hard -- it is just either slow to converge for some methods or not simply uniquely determined (*). They consider the cases that are not