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Re: A new, fast and "unbreakable" encryption algorithm

From Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: A new, fast and "unbreakable" encryption algorithm
Date 2015-12-04 08:40 +0100
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Ismail Kizir wrote:
> What means "did not look random"?

A plaintext consisting of repeated bytes (zero, or other values)
eventually makes your algorithm go into a loop, which results in
repeated bytes.

> On the pictures, there is also an example of "full 0"(it appears red,
> but it is full 0 bmp) example.
> And it "looks" perfectly random.

No, red is _not_ perfectly random.  When I see a red picture, I have
evidence that the plaintext was zeroes.


Regards,
Clemens
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Re: A new, fast and "unbreakable" encryption algorithm Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2015-12-03 23:40 +0100
  Re: A new, fast and "unbreakable" encryption algorithm Ismail Kizir <ikizir@gmail.com> - 2015-12-03 23:40 +0100
    Re: A new, fast and "unbreakable" encryption algorithm Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> - 2015-12-04 08:40 +0100
      Re: A new, fast and "unbreakable" encryption algorithm Ismail Kizir <ikizir@gmail.com> - 2015-12-04 10:50 +0100
        Re: A new, fast and "unbreakable" encryption algorithm Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com> - 2015-12-04 16:40 +0100

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