More to the point, should we trust the NSA to tell us how to encode messages that they can't decode? I wouldn't. Bob Baillie --- Warren D Smith wrote:

http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/404.pdf that was interesting - I did not know the NSA published stuff about cryptography.

I agree this is simple and short and fast. The bad news is it looks to me like a poorly designed cryptosystem -- I can see very obvious changes which seem highly likely to be major security improvements.

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