1997-10-05 - Re: Quor’s cipher

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From: Anonymous <anon@anon.efga.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 03:37:39 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Quor's cipher
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Antonomasia <ant@notatla.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> This cypher is constructed differently from RC4 or fish - not as simple as
> WAKE but broadly comparable to Sapphire II.  I think I'll enlist the help
> of a search engine.  It's more than likely there other things waiting to
> be done to this.

It seems to be roughly a cross between a stream cypher and a block cypher.
Search engine turned up absolutely nothing on this.

> Quor's friend 'nobody' has actually put some crypto on
> the list -let's see what we can do with/to it.

An actual crypto post on a cryptography list?  How unusual.... ;-)






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