Re: multi-key encryption algorithm is meaningful?
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Re: multi-key encryption algorithm is meaningful?

From: Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed Jan 18 2006 - 01:11:11 CET

"chaeso" <chaeso@gmail.com> writes:
> I used simply Chinese remainder theorem.
> You can find it after few minutes.
>
> User choose both plaintexts,key arbitrarily.
> constraint is just each key must be mutually relatively prime.
> and ciphertext size is 2 times to the key size based on empirical test.

It would be. That implies there are two plaintexts to find, and
your cover is blown.

> I think now one-time pad is better than this.

Beware. OTP isn't an algoritm, it's a system that is practically
(and I mean that literally) exceptionally hard to implement.

Phil

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Received on Thu Jan 19 03:44:39 2006