1993-06-04 - snake oil

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From: Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1993-06-04 01:10:18 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 3 Jun 93 18:10:18 PDT

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From: Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 93 18:10:18 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: snake oil
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>  (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

Thread

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• 1993-05-27 (Wed, 26 May 93 17:03:41 PDT) - Re: VinCrypt - Clark Reynard <clark@metal.psu.edu>
  • 1993-05-27 (Wed, 26 May 93 19:33:31 PDT) - Re: VinCrypt - J. Michael Diehl <mdiehl@triton.unm.edu>
    • 1993-05-27 (Thu, 27 May 93 08:15:14 PDT) - Re: VinCrypt - “Perry E. Metzger” <pmetzger@lehman.com>
      • 1993-05-29 (Fri, 28 May 93 21:37:59 PDT) - VinCrypt - Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>
        • 1993-06-03 (Thu, 3 Jun 93 15:13:25 PDT) - Re: snake oil - Nickey MacDonald <i6t4@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
          • 1993-06-03 (Thu, 3 Jun 93 15:53:03 PDT) - Re: snake oil - Marc Horowitz <marc@GZA.COM>
          • 1993-06-03 (Thu, 3 Jun 93 16:55:05 PDT) - Re: snake oil - “Perry E. Metzger” <pmetzger@lehman.com>
            • 1993-06-04 (Fri, 4 Jun 93 01:39:37 PDT) - Re: snake oil (Posting ciphers to the list) - tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
          • 1993-06-04 (Thu, 3 Jun 93 18:10:18 PDT) - snake oil - Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>
  • 1993-05-27 (Thu, 27 May 93 12:53:57 PDT) - Re: VinCrypt - “Ian S. Nelson” <ian@bvsd.Co.EDU>