1993-08-12 - Re: Chaos harnessed for encryption / Fluctuations and Or

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From: fnerd@smds.com (FutureNerd Steve Witham)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1993-08-12 15:48:12 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 12 Aug 93 08:48:12 PDT

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From: fnerd@smds.com (FutureNerd Steve Witham)
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 93 08:48:12 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Chaos harnessed for encryption / Fluctuations and Or
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gtoal@gtoal.com sez-

> That was smoke and mirrors by people who understand chaos better than
> they understand encryption.  All it boils down to is a synchronised
> pair of (not very good) PRNGs.
> ...
> Forget it.  It's a dead end.

What it is is PRNGs that can synchronize without publishing their
states.  If this could be done with strong PRNGs, you'd have something.

-fnerd
quote me





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