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| jdege | Apr 6 2008, 04:38 PM |
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You thought wrong. We're a bunch of amateurs. Of various degrees of aptitude and experience. We all have our own lives, and our own interests, and only a limited amount of time to spend on this hobby. Spending a time trying to cryptanalize a novel cipher is something some of us might attempt, now and again - if we think we might learn something useful in the process. If you read through the archived posts you'll find a few examples of this. But there's a fundamental difference between trying to cryptanalize a new cipher that has some novel features, and trying to guess the exact cipher used given only a short bit of ciphertext, with no evidence that there will be anything novel about the cipher used. Particularly when the cipher text provided appears to be shorter than the unicity distance. Like I said, if you want people to spend any time at all examining your cipher system, provide a full explanation of the method. Take a look at Donald's submission of his "Spread" cipher in Crypto->Cryptograhy->General: The "spread" Cipher, a cipher I'm playing with Don't just throw ciphertext at us. It's a waste of our time. |
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