[820] in Cypherpunks
snake oil
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Hughes)
Thu Jun 3 21:27:31 1993
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 93 18:06:39 -0700
From: Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Nickey MacDonald's message of Thu, 3 Jun 1993 19:08:45 -0300 (ADT) <Pine.3.05.9306031942.B29415-a100000@jupiter>
> (As it happens, I happen to
>have what I **think** is a new approach to cyphering,
Post away. If you upload a copy of the source to the directory
pub/cypherpunks/incoming on the ftp site, I'll make it available to
everyone.
I would like to see this regardless of whether it actually is secure.
It is a well-founded maxim that no one should design a cipher without
having broken a few first. There is a need, apropos of training the
desginers, for insecure ciphers, not so they can be deployed, but so
that other insecure ciphers will not be.
Eric
