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From: Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: Naive PRNG encryption?
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:36:14 +0000
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On 03/08/2024 21:00, Rich wrote:
> When I was in college in the early seventies, I devised what I
>     believed was a brilliant encryption scheme.

T-shirt time already, is it?

In the 1990s I devised a superb tree-balancing algorithm, and I 
was even thinking about writing a paper on it.

Turns out AVL was already a thing.

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Richard Heathfield
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