[859] in Cypherpunks
The "WARLOCK" Cipher
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy C. May)
Fri Jun 4 14:15:00 1993
From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 93 10:56:52 PDT
Cc: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
Cypherdroids,
Earlier today I commented on the advisability of posting new ciphers
to this group, or to sci.crypt. (I haven't gotten my message yet, so I
don't know if it went through.)
By coincidence, a very long posting on sci.crypt has appeared,
announcing a new matrix-based crypto system, called "WARLOCK" by its
inventors.
They provide an extensive introduction to the mathematics used and
offer various analyses. This is a first step toward making their
system worth analyzing.
I suggest following the debate on this system will be educational. And
perhaps their system will even survive to become a reasonable
alternative.
-Tim May
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