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Re: How much is my encryption algorithm worth?

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Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> writes:

> On 3/22/2014 9:53 PM, Daniel Mullarkey wrote:
>> I developed a lossless, key-based, encryption algorithm that can work
>> in any modern programming language and it has a 1-to-1 relationship
>> between the unencrypted values and the encrypted values as long as
>> the key remains the same and the minimum values and maximum values
>> are known. The key can also be of virtually limitless size. How much
>> is this encryption algorithm potentially worth if I patent it?
>
> I'd estimate about $0.
>
> Cryptography is difficult and surprisingly involved. No one should be willing to
> trust their data to an algorithm that has not undergone intense
> cryptanalysis. At the very least, there needs to be signs that the inventor is
> very much aware of cryptography and what can go wrong. The selection process for
> the SHA-3, for example, rejected 26 of 51 round-1 applicants due to substantial
> cryptographic weaknesses, and many of these were presumably proposed by active
> cryptographic researchers (since it had to be approved well enough by NIST to
> make it into round 1).
>
> Your coyness about describing any elements of the algorithm and the inability to
> find a more appropriate venue (such as, I don't know, sci.crypt) are highly
> suggestive that you have no practical experience in understanding why
> cryptographic algorithms would be weak.

But highly suggestive that he's a seasoned troll who knows just how to
get a bunch of opinionated blow hards puffing ;)

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How much is my encryption algorithm worth? Daniel Mullarkey <correspondence@danielmullarkey.me> - 2014-03-22 19:53 -0700
  Re: How much is my encryption algorithm worth? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-03-22 23:14 -0400
    Re: How much is my encryption algorithm worth? Daniel Mullarkey <correspondence@danielmullarkey.me> - 2014-03-22 20:59 -0700
    Re: How much is my encryption algorithm worth? Daniel Mullarkey <correspondence@danielmullarkey.me> - 2014-03-22 21:23 -0700
      Re: How much is my encryption algorithm worth? Simon Lewis <simonlewis2001@gmail.com> - 2014-03-23 11:04 +0100
        Re: How much is my encryption algorithm worth? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-24 00:20 -0400
      Re: How much is my encryption algorithm worth? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-03-23 16:11 -0400
  Re: How much is my encryption algorithm worth? Daniel Mullarkey <correspondence@danielmullarkey.me> - 2014-03-22 21:17 -0700
    Re: How much is my encryption algorithm worth? "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2014-03-23 17:03 +1100
      Re: How much is my encryption algorithm worth? Simon Lewis <simonlewis2001@gmail.com> - 2014-03-23 11:05 +0100
        Re: How much is my encryption algorithm worth? "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2014-03-23 21:41 +1100
    Re: How much is my encryption algorithm worth? rossum <rossum48@coldmail.com> - 2014-03-23 10:42 +0000
  Re: How much is my encryption algorithm worth? lipska the kat <lipskathekat@example.com> - 2014-03-23 10:27 +0000
  Re: How much is my encryption algorithm worth? Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2014-03-23 21:17 -0500
    Re: How much is my encryption algorithm worth? Simon Lewis <simonlewis2001@gmail.com> - 2014-03-24 12:06 +0100
      Re: How much is my encryption algorithm worth? "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2014-03-24 22:28 +1100
      Re: How much is my encryption algorithm worth? lipska the kat <lipskathekat@example.com> - 2014-03-24 15:23 +0000
      Re: How much is my encryption algorithm worth? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-03-24 19:35 -0400
  Re: How much is my encryption algorithm worth? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-23 23:00 -0400
    Re: How much is my encryption algorithm worth? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-25 06:53 -0400
  Re: How much is my encryption algorithm worth? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-23 23:17 -0400
    Re: How much is my encryption algorithm worth? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-03-23 23:33 -0400
  Re: How much is my encryption algorithm worth? Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2014-03-24 21:32 -0700

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