How would you do that ...
Robert J. Hansen
rjh at sixdemonbag.org
Tue May 4 17:57:22 CEST 2021
> Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon is excellent. I strongly
> recommend it to anyone who enjoys reading & is interested in crypto.
> Part of the plot involves a cipher that operates a bit like RC-4,
> permuting an array, but the array is a deck of cards.
> https://www.schneier.com/academic/solitaire/
Please don't. Solitaire is not a particularly well-designed cipher, in
either the human factors sense or in the cryptographic strength sense.
Even Schneier himself says it's mostly of interest only as a curiosity
and not for serious purposes.
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