YA cracker challenge

Eugene Leitl Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:06:24 +0100 (MET)


On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Robert Harley wrote:

> >>The VME is a million byte-based algorithm,
>
>   Warning Sign #5: Ridiculous key lengths.

A stream cypher with a lot of internal state seems to asymptotically
approach properties of an one-time pad. There are not such worthwhile
cyphers right now, but it doesn't mean lots if internal state is snake oil
per se.