Re: A matter of interest.

[mrvmurray@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 02:24:54 UTC, David Botton  wrote:
> Austin,
> 
> Have you considered creating a contest to break your encryption?
> Enough prize money and you can get an entire convention of hackers
> to validate your ideas.

He did , and lost. In typical form, he did not recognise this.

The cipher as stated is brute-forceable in seconds, but the contest as
conducted by O'Byrne was flawed. In short, he cheated, and created
a ciphergram that his "Bob" could not read using the agreed settings.

However, his cipher creates output that heavily leaks the parameters that
he was changing, so obtaining these are not hard work, just an irritant.

M