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Date:	Sat, 21 Nov 2015 08:31:28 +0200
From:	Ismail Kizir <ikizir@...il.com>
To:	Clemens Ladisch <clemens@...isch.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A new, fast and "unbreakable" encryption algorithm

Hello Clemens,

Check this out please; just visual proofs: Better than thousands of lines:
http://ismail-kizir.blogspot.com.tr/2015/11/visual-proofs-of-hohha-dynamic-xor.html

Regards
Ismail Kizir

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Clemens Ladisch <clemens@...isch.de> wrote:
> Ismail Kizir wrote:
>> The essential logic of the algorithm is using the key as a "jump
>> table" which is dynamically updated with every "jump" we make.
>
> Sounds like RC4.  Please tell us how you are avoiding the weaknesses
> that make RC4 insecure.
>
>> Briefly, to decypher a ciphertext, a cracker needs to find out the
>> key, and, to find out the key, cracker needs to find out the
>> plaintext, because the key is dynamically updated according the
>> plaintext during encryption process: Impossible!
>
> That problem has been solved for a long time:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_mode_of_operation
>
>
> Anyway, I tried to modify your program to encrypt a large message
> consisting only of zero bytes.  The result did not look random.
>
>
> Regards,
> Clemens
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