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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Naive PRNG encryption?
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2024 10:41:41 -0000 (UTC)
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I saw someone mention this on another 'froup, and I've thought about it 
myself.  Is it really "uncrackable"?

Take a plaintext and transform each character with the output
of a PRNG, with the seed being the key.

How easy is it to crack the resulting "ciphertext"?

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-v