From: "Mark M." <markm@voicenet.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 14:52:10 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Signature
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On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, Charles Choi (SAR) wrote:

> 1)	Is it possible to base a privacy key ( e.g. PGP ) on a fractal 
> 		equation, instead of an algorithm based on two primes?  
> 		This would allow for an eternal level of complexity due 
> 		to infinite field of depth one can find as one 'zooms in' 
> 		closer ( correct me because I'm wrong; I'm not a math major,
> 		although increasingly I wish I was... ), allowing for near
> 		unbreakable privacy of information.

The fact that the private key is based on fractals rather than prime numbers
really doesn't make a difference.  Fractals are not random, and do in fact,
have a pattern.  The Mandelbrot Set, for instance, can be expressed in a
few bytes of information even though it is infinitely complex.  Therefore,
the fractal has extremely low entropy making it a bad choice from which to
obtain random data.

- --Mark

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