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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: Ismail Kizir <ikizir@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A new, fast and "unbreakable" encryption algorithm
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 10:05:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <564D90CF.4080100@ladisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFJyfaOzibRfaKhqvBh_yvQFfzQmO8e5wU4OK58g-my=TXwuSg@mail.gmail.com>

Ismail Kizir wrote:
> The essential logic of the algorithm is using the key as a "jump
> table" which is dynamically updated with every "jump" we make.

Sounds like RC4.  Please tell us how you are avoiding the weaknesses
that make RC4 insecure.

> Briefly, to decypher a ciphertext, a cracker needs to find out the
> key, and, to find out the key, cracker needs to find out the
> plaintext, because the key is dynamically updated according the
> plaintext during encryption process: Impossible!

That problem has been solved for a long time:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_mode_of_operation


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


Regards,
Clemens

  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-19  9:05 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 [this message]
2015-11-21  6:31       ` Ismail Kizir
2015-12-03 22:35         ` Pavel Machek
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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