From: 3umoelle@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Ulf =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=F6ller?=)
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 07:49:49 +0800
To: ichudov@algebra.com
Subject: Re: http://www.dataet.com/public/source/vsacmv20/
In-Reply-To: <199705170136.UAA16850@manifold.algebra.com>
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>Also, some may be interested to look at this particular encryption
>method (I added some indentation and comments for readability). I believe
>that it is not particularly strong.

>      Block[I1] := Block[I1] xor Random(256);
>      Block[I1] := EncTable[Block[I1]];

What is Random()? How is it seeded?

>>  The first
>> cypherpunk who develops a VSA2048 decryption utility, decrypts the file, and
>> sends decrypted message and the correct key to info@dataet.com and
>> cypherpunks@toad.com will receive a free basic Web site package. (Package
>> details are located at http://www.dataet.com). (Igor, this is it!)

The test file is only 836 bytes long.  Could you please post a file
consisting of, say, 50.000 space characters encrypted with the same
key?