[119220] in Cypherpunks
Chalange to Tim May was: Re: Frequency Tables
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ANTGamez@aol.com)
Tue Oct 19 20:59:35 1999
From: ANTGamez@aol.com
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Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 20:19:39 EDT
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It was posted a few months ago by subscribers to this list, and since this
list has a major topic of crypto-analisis / code breaking why would it be off
topic??? A large amount of "encryption" programs simply swap letters, also
the one time pads can be broke with such a method assuming enough ciphertext
is available. This is not off topic, this was posted before, I am just asking
someone to repost this information to me and/or the list as for you. As for
this being "inappropropriate" learn to spell the word, before you decide what
is and is not inappropriate, I was not asking for a personal assistant in a
search. I was asking for someone to post information which unless the topic
of cryptography has completely disappeared from this list, should be readily
available to many of the subscribers to this list. It appears you are
becoming less and less the cryptographer and more and more the
semi-celebrity, if I am wrong then here is what I have to say to you:
I challenge you.
Write your own code to encrypt a message, note: this code must be completely
your own not something someone wrote or compiled a DLL for or any other such
thing, I will do the same, then chose a publicly available book in English,
type the first 3 pages in a plain windows text format, then encrypt it with
your code and send the ciphertext to the list. then e-mail your code for
your encryption to the list, I will do the same, the first one to gain the
others plain text wins the challenge upon this happening the winner will
supply to the list the passphrase for his message and the title of the book
he chose it being confirmed that the supplied encryption code and passphrase
produce a proper plaintext he will be declared the winner if said code and
passphrase does not produce a proper copy of the plaintext, the winner will
forfeit. You have been challenged, now it is a matter of honor.
-Michael Haisley
antgamez@aol.com
mhaisley@thepentagon.com
"In the end there can be only one"
