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From: Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada Connections to this Crypto.
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Austin Obyrne <austin.obyrne@hotmail.com> writes:

> The bottom line has to be "Where are the ciphers that all these clever readers have written? - there blowing in their own wind can be the only answer - there's pedantry, politics and petulance, vicious personal attacks but no ciphers"
>  A bit like the golfer who has a lovely set of clubs, polishes the bag , cleans and polishes his shoes, buys some snazzy outfits with a white cap, knows the rules of the game inside out panders to club politics with lots of 'me too' stuff but never hits a ball.

Not really. I would have loved to developed worthwhile ciphers. In some
of my master's program work I developed software for generating and
assessing block ciphers; only last year I worked on an idea for
automating differential cryptanalysis to assist in my ideas for creating
ciphers. (It failed miserably.) I am /not/ offering cipher designs
because I have read enough and learned enough and tried enough to have
found that I am simply not good enough at it: that other people in the
field are far more skilled than I am, and that I still don't understand
the theory well enough to devise ciphers and provide credible assurance
of their security.

I'm not like a golfer who panders to club politics, I'm like a golfer
who likes the game but after a lot of trying and even two rounds of
classes still can't even hit the ball reliably and realizes that his
efforts are best applied elsewhere. I wouldn't have responded to you at
all had you not been persistently filling an Ada group -- something I
/am/ interested in reading about -- with your peculiar assertions and
misapprehensions, which I've made a good-faith constructive effort to
help you move past.

-- Mark