[free-sklyarov] An Alternative Line of Argumentation

[Brian Hicks]

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 04:00:43PM -0400, Jay Sulzberger wrote:
> Every issue any human being has ever demonstrated about, including
> slavery, the death penalty, and the WTO is hard to fully explain in less
> than 30 seconds.  Here we have the advantage that the secret decoder ring
> is not an analogy, but an implementation of one cipher, the
> mono-alphabetic substitution, used by an Adobe partner to "protect the
> copyright holder's interests".

This is slightly off topic, but being a caesar cipher, rot13 is actually
less sophisticated than the vast majority of decoder rings.  Since a
caesar cipher has 26 possibilities (rot13 being the most famous one), and
a mono-alphabetic substitution has 26! possibilities.

Hell, the Cryptoquip in the paper is more complex than Adobe's encryption
by several orders of magnitude.

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