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Seeking a book review
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael C Taylor)
Mon Feb 10 11:55:13 1997
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 10:20:02 -0400 (AST)
From: Michael C Taylor <mctaylor@mta.ca>
To: cryptography@c2.net
I was hoping someone might be able to comment on a book I found last week,
"CryptoPrivacy: A Cryptographer's Manual on Classic Ciphers" by Clayton C.
Pierce, self-published in 1994.
He also lists "Secret & Secure" as an eariler book by him, and goes by num
de plume, "SI SI" in the ACA.
The quote that made me wonder is, "Revolutionary cryptography
notwithstanding, classic ciphers remain practicable for information
privacy applications. After all, classic ciphers can be computerized, when
data volume warrants, and they can produce cryptograms just as unbreakable
by cryptanalysis as those from the latest crypto systems."
He later one refers to an article about DES's worthlessness published in
Cryptogram, after it wasn't published in Cryptologia.
These bold claims make me wonder about Clayton Pierce and his claims. Does
anyone has any conclusions or familiarity with Clayton's claims?
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Michael C. Taylor <mctaylor@mta.ca> <http://www.mta.ca/~mctaylor/>
Programmer, Mount Allison University, Canada
