Kip Knight of Prism Research has responded to my criticism
of Perfect Encryption, his software encryption suite (see a couple of
posts below). As promised, his response verbatim:
Hit me hard and heavy! Yes, I do have the credentials and knowledge
of encryption (Ph.D. candidate). Yes, I realize I'm stepping on 90
year-old theories. Yes, I realize I'm putting the cart before the
horse. I'm trying to balance the Catch-22 problem of not trusting a
hidden algorithm while hiding a very powerful algorithm from all those
terrorist groups floating the Internet. Let me explain some of the
properties of my Many-Time Pad (MTP) algorithm.
MTP has the same key management issues as the OTP. That is, the key
must be at least as big as the plaintext. The 32MB was arbitrary for
the average user. A command-line tool is provided that can create a
key of any size (
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