THE RECIPROCAL ?......

Dear Cypherpunks,

Speaking to a colleague who works at Queen's University of Belfast about
the speculation of someone recently breaking PGP her response was, although
short, very interesting which I thought may be of interest to the
group.....

"When people talk of encryption they use the word break, they are
approaching from one way but not the only way. I am at present trying the
reciprocal, that is, to mend."

I asked her to go into more detail but she declined saying that.....

"The early experiments have worked."

What this means I don't know and she never anwsered whom the work was for
but maybe this is a route which one has not considered - if at all it
exists......the reciprocal ?.....



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Terence Joseph Mallon writes:
 > "When people talk of encryption they use the word break, they are
 > approaching from one way but not the only way. I am at present trying the
 > reciprocal, that is, to mend."

Why do I sometimes feel that personalities that once were drawn to
design of perpetual motion machines or techniques for squaring circles
may very soon flock to cryptographic "research"?

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