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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Should I Box Clever.
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Austin Obyrne <austin.obyrne@hotmail.com> writes:

> *This idea of creating mutual databases is valid for any operation system.
>
> If it hasn't worked for you then there are basic problems still to be
> sorted out in the mutual databases (you are not working to such a
> scheme obviously but that is the design concept) - it simply cannot go
> wrong after being delivered by Alice to Bob (that is using a one-off
> secure delivery by trusted courier).

Well, I used your program to try to decrypt a ciphertext that you had
generated, and it failed. So I don't think it's fair to say that *I* am
not working to a scheme.