OxPM: Encryption...

[Peter Sergeant]

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Mike wrote:
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But then won't it take some time to encrypt and decrypt the message even if 
you have the key?
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Possibly. But maybe that's the challenge. A prize of a pint at our next 
meeting (I'm thinking in terms of a pub here) for the winner, judged by me?
It might also beinteresting to follow up on a simple encryption method I 
devised when I was ten: Each letter that you use has ten different numbers. 
One of these is picked randomly each time you want to write a letter. 
However, this could be improved by each letter having a number of 'keys' 
equal to its use in normal english prose. And the 7 or eight or whatever 
digit password is used to generate these numbers, and then to make a 
decoding key at the other end. Ideas on that front?

- Peter Sergeant
lets_play_at_being_top_secret_spies at oxford.pm.org


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