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It is quite fascinating to imagine inmates passing their handwritten Vigenère encrypted secrets using Diffie-Hellman key exchange.
by gibsjose 9y ago
It is quite fascinating to imagine inmates passing their handwritten Vigenère encrypted secrets using Diffie-Hellman key exchange.
- wyager 9y agoAs I recall, Neil Stephenson commissioned Bruce Schneier to come up with a reasonably secure cryptosystem that could be computed using a deck of cards, so that a character in Cryptonomicon could do something similar while imprisoned.
- grogenaut 9y agohttps://www.schneier.com/academic/solitaire/ https://www.schneier.com/academic/solitaire/
- userbinator 9y agoThe two indices and the permutation operations are very reminiscent of RC4.