Re: A New Encryption Algorithm
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Re: A New Encryption Algorithm

From: John Savard <jsavard@excxn.aNOSPAMb.cdn.invalid>
Date: Mon Jan 16 2006 - 03:55:13 CET

On 15 Jan 2006 02:13:38 GMT, Unruh <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca> wrote, in
part:

>Yes, but is b=a+12 it is also not hard to break. In fact b-a had better be
>pretty large for this to be a reasonable cypher.

Yes, but you could say the same thing about RSA; if p-q = 2 it would
fall quickly to Fermat factorization. I didn't see anything in his post
that implied b=a+12.

John Savard
http://www.quadibloc.com/index.html
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Received on Tue Jan 17 16:50:42 2006