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Re: expectation of privacy (Re: Symmetric Algorithm)

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Subject: Re: expectation of privacy (Re: Symmetric Algorithm)
From: lutz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Lutz Donnerhacke)
Date: 3 Nov 1997 12:07:34 GMT
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* Jon Callas wrote:
>Your request for an algorithm identifier for ROT-13 has been duly noted. It
>might be better if I generalized it in the spec to ROT-N, where N is a
>128-bit number.

Don't include it. It is too easy to break.

References:
- Re: Symmetric Algorithm
  - From: A. Padgett Peterson P.E. Information Security
- Re: expectation of privacy (Re: Symmetric Algorithm)
  - From: Jon Callas

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