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Re: [Cfrg] Crystalline Cipher

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Wed, 20 May 2015 23:06 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Mark McCarron <mark.mccarron@eclipso.eu>
Thread-Topic: [Cfrg] Crystalline Cipher
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The web-page you posted says it is "designed to be as secure as a one-time pad."

This statement cannot possibly be true, and therefore everything else you say about it is now treated with great skepticism.  Pointing to a website as a recommended source of random bytes adds to the lack of credibility.

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