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Thread ID: 115152 2011-01-04 22:18:00 Where has everybody gone? beetle (243) PC World Chat
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1167149 2011-01-11 10:26:00 I gathered. It piqued my interest at the time though, although I know absolutely nothing about practical cryptography. Did anything ever eventuate from that algorithm? ubergeek85 (131)
1167150 2011-01-11 10:32:00 I looked at trying to commercialise it but essentially came up against the old issue of initial key distribution. It was a strong system given it was akin to a one time pad and the methodology / key size used, but a chain is only as strong as it's weakest link and I couldn't solve the issue of initial key distribution without relying on public methods. So in a nutshell it is still sitting on the shelf. It was an interesting project and it gave me ideas about breaking other algorithms. I recommend you read a book called 'The Code Book' by Simon Singh if you have more than a passing interest in cryptography. Very informative.

Andrew
andrew93 (249)
1167151 2011-01-11 20:50:00 Meh DeSade (984)
1167152 2011-01-11 21:17:00 What happened to csinclair? The "Wots wrong wif my fridge? posts were hilarious. Come out of the woodwork, Craig

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WalOne (4202)
1167153 2011-01-11 23:13:00 Yes that was me. That was a couple of years ago. From memory it was downloaded about 15-20k times and no-one cracked it. I've since moved on to other projects.....

Cheers,
Andrew

I downloaded it but never bothered to try breaking it
Agent_24 (57)
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