[87706] in Cypherpunks
Re: Quor's cipher
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Sun Oct 5 15:58:41 1997
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 15:31:19 -0400
From: Anonymous <anon@anon.efga.org>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Anonymous <anon@anon.efga.org>
Antonomasia <ant@notatla.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> This cypher is constructed differently from RC4 or fish - not as simple as
> WAKE but broadly comparable to Sapphire II. I think I'll enlist the help
> of a search engine. It's more than likely there other things waiting to
> be done to this.
It seems to be roughly a cross between a stream cypher and a block cypher.
Search engine turned up absolutely nothing on this.
> Quor's friend 'nobody' has actually put some crypto on
> the list -let's see what we can do with/to it.
An actual crypto post on a cryptography list? How unusual.... ;-)
