1993-08-19 - Re: Cypherpunk Chip

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From: peter honeyman <honey@citi.umich.edu>
To: cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison)
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UTC Datetime: 1993-08-19 16:20:46 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 19 Aug 93 09:20:46 PDT

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From: peter honeyman <honey@citi.umich.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 93 09:20:46 PDT
To: cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison)
Subject: Re: Cypherpunk Chip
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how important is the prng aspect of tran?  presumably des-cbc does
a good job of bit diffusion.  why is it better to tran than to 
"dd conv=swab" or rot13?  (or even to do nothing at all, simply
des-cbc|des-cbc|des-cbc?)

	peter

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