[39] in Cypherpunks
Re: A link encryption protocol to crytique ;-)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sy Verpunc)
Thu Apr 29 10:59:23 1993
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 93 14:42:02 GMT
From: Sy Verpunc <svp@gtoal.com>
Reply-To: cypherpunks@toad.com
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
: T[i] is generated by a pseudo random process, similar to shuffling a deck of
: cards. For each i, fill the vector with the values 0 to D-1. Then two random
: indexes (j & k) are chosen (to be different) and the two values at
: T[i,j] and T[i,k] are swapped. This can be iterated an arbitraty number of
: times (L) to ensure a good "shuffle" of the values.
I saw this particularly clueless statement and stopped even trying to follow
the rest of it. Still, I made an even more stupid blunder on sci.crypt a few
weeks ago myself, so I can't criticise. All I can say is I learned from my
mistake and will leave thinking up new crypto schemes to the experts.
G
