NEWS/TECH: Teen devises new crypto cypher

From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Wed Dec 22 1999 - 14:20:23 MST


Unfortunately, it is insecure. She herself has broken it. Which seems
to indicate that she is one hell of a budding cryptographer. Watch for
one of her next cyphers...

Sasha Chislenko writes:
> An Irish teenager has invented a new data-encryption technology
> with the potential to be just as secure -- but 22 times faster --
> than the battle-tested RSA encryption algorithm.
> [ Based on matrices multiplication ]
>
>
> See http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,17330,00.html
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Sasha Chislenko <http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/home.html>



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