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Re: Vector Factoring and Vector Cryptography. -ASLEC website -

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On 25/09/2021 10:08, austin obyrne wrote:
> the user of vector cryptography has a vast domain of number-lines to
> draw from whereas traditional cryptographers have had only one line
> ever that they were bound to use repeatedly for every
> encryption/decryption of any number of plaintext characters however
> great.  Concealing their transformations of plaintext into ciphertext
> is extremely difficult and although it gives rise to some very fine
> algorithms that were elegant and intelligent they did not really do
> the job of complete obfuscation of the plaintext.

Yes, they do. Your claim is tantamount to a claim that you can crack a
one time pad. It's nonsense.

> The ciphers that they produced could never really shake off the
> threat of statistical cryptanalysis.

OTP can do precisely that. Vector cryptography cannot. We proved that
when we broke it.

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Vector Factoring and Vector Cryptography. -ASLEC website - austin obyrne <ao402468@gmail.com> - 2021-09-25 02:08 -0700
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