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On Mon, 1 Dec 2014 18:43:00 -0800 (PST), Austin Obyrne
<austin.obyrne@hotmail.com> declaimed the following:

>I have only this very weekend completed a profoundly secure algorithm that I would promote to Gauss, Archimedes or Euclid with impunity if they were still here.
>
	You've rediscovered the "one time pad" or Caesar cipher?

	That's about the level of encryption that would have been amazing to
the three so named.

	To them, the now weak DES would have required weeks of work, even with
the key and a description of how the algorithm works, just to encode a
message.
-- 
	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
    wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/