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brbarkstrom@gmail.com writes:

> I do not believe that a new cryptographic algorithm can be trusted
> until it has been published and attacked by competent cryptanalysts.
> The classic text is
>
> Schneier, B., 1996: Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms,
> and Source Code in C, John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY
>
> If the algorithm hasn't been published, the usual term would be
> "security by obscurity."  It doesn't work.

To be fair to Austin, he has published his work-in-progress.