From: ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 18:57:23 +0800
To: semprini@theschool.com
Subject: Re: Encryption Program
In-Reply-To: <199710130820.BAA29369@k2.brigadoon.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.971014200622.1503B-100000@shirley>
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On Mon, 13 Oct 1997 semprini@theschool.com wrote:

> Hello. I just posted an encryption program on the web. It uses a key-
> generated pseudorandom stream of characters that get XORed with the 
> plaintext to produce the cyphertext.

Why do peaple keep posting examples of this lame cryptosystem?  I mean how
meany examples of XOR with the output of a pydorandom strame do we have to
see? 

Semprini please find some good books on Crypto (and read the sci.crypt
FAQ) to see why what you have done is week.

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