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From: Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: What are the chances of this encrytion being broken?
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 08:02:45 +0000
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On 27/03/2025 04:36, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
> On 27/03/2025 04:13, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
>> On 24/03/2025 21:33, hal@invalid.com wrote:
>>
>>> And - I am not speaking of crypto for mass use. Only for 
>>> personal use,
>>> wherein one *can* make it useful and secure.
>>
>> No. You can't. Even if you are an expert.
> 
> Of course the other point is, why would you bother when we have 
> good ciphers already?
> 
> Pride? But we know you aren't a good cryptographer anyway, 
> because a good cryptographer wouldn't use a home-grown cipher.

And a good cryptographer would in any case have asked for opinion 
on an algorithm, not a ciphertext.

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Richard Heathfield
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