Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 23:35:18 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Ismail Kizir <ikizir@gmail.com>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A new, fast and "unbreakable" encryption algorithm
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Hi!

> Check this out please; just visual proofs: Better than thousands of lines:
> http://ismail-kizir.blogspot.com.tr/2015/11/visual-proofs-of-hohha-dynamic-xor.html

Trouble is... it is hard to prove your encryption can not be broken,
but it is very easy to prove your encryption _can_ be broken. (*)

And it looks like Clemens did just that:

> > Anyway, I tried to modify your program to encrypt a large message
> > consisting only of zero bytes.  The result did not look random.

Sorry.

									Pavel
(*) And no, those pictures don't really prove anything.
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