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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Ismail Kizir <ikizir@gmail.com>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A new, fast and "unbreakable" encryption algorithm
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 23:35:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151203223518.GF14427@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFJyfaOt5LR=icYCszCui1KTMGebhNZfx9XoonHhUKZejK7y7w@mail.gmail.com>

Hi!

> Check this out please; just visual proofs: Better than thousands of lines:
> http://ismail-kizir.blogspot.com.tr/2015/11/visual-proofs-of-hohha-dynamic-xor.html

Trouble is... it is hard to prove your encryption can not be broken,
but it is very easy to prove your encryption _can_ be broken. (*)

And it looks like Clemens did just that:

> > Anyway, I tried to modify your program to encrypt a large message
> > consisting only of zero bytes.  The result did not look random.

Sorry.

									Pavel
(*) And no, those pictures don't really prove anything.
-- 
(english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek
(cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html

  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-03 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-18  5:25 A new, fast and "unbreakable" encryption algorithm Ismail Kizir
2015-11-18 16:33 ` Harald Arnesen
2015-11-18 20:11   ` Ismail Kizir
2015-11-19  9:05     ` Clemens Ladisch
2015-11-21  6:31       ` Ismail Kizir
2015-12-03 22:35         ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2015-12-03 22:38           ` Ismail Kizir
2015-12-04  7:34             ` Clemens Ladisch
2015-12-04  9:42               ` Ismail Kizir
2015-12-04 15:28                 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-11-19  2:35   ` Ismail Kizir
2015-11-19 12:12 ` Łukasz Stelmach
2015-11-19 12:31   ` Ismail Kizir
2015-11-19 14:04     ` Łukasz Stelmach
2015-11-19 14:05     ` Ismail Kizir

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