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From: Stefan Claas <pollux@tilde.club>
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: Inspired by Chris's HMAC cipher
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 15:53:57 -0000
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Rich wrote:
> Stefan Claas <pollux@tilde.club> wrote:
> > I am also thinking of creating a key pair for sci.crypt, so that we 
> > no longer have to use SCOS, because SCOS was floating around on 
> > Bitmessage, as C, Pascal and Go code.
> 
> Do note that SCOS was not intended to be "secure" (for most definitions 
> of that word).  Richard H. posted it as an exercise in breaking a 
> cipher given just examples of the cipher's output.  It fits in as a 
> somewhat more difficult ROT13 than as a true "protection" for anything 
> posted with it.

Ok, understand.

> It is interesting that source for it is on bitmessage.

It has been a while since it was posted. New users may not be able
to fetch it, because Bitmessage has a TTL parameter.

-- 
Regards
Stefan