<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 28, 2017, at 7:19 AM, Salz, Rich via cryptography <<a href="mailto:cryptography@metzdowd.com" class="">cryptography@metzdowd.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Any comments? <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://perpetualencryption.com/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">http://perpetualencryption.com/</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">“No keys. Encryption based on a perpetual OTP designed to be secure. “</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;">This white paper reads like a patent application. </div><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://perpetualencryption.com/ThePerpetualEquivocationMethod(WhitePaper)Final.pdf" class="">http://perpetualencryption.com/ThePerpetualEquivocationMethod(WhitePaper)Final.pdf</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div>Yes, the web page says no keys but the site paper clearly talks about keys being used. Figure 3 shows a key. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>Also, You need to use an interesting thing which seems to be a series of oxymorons … </div>
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<li class=""><p class=""><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'; font-weight: 700" class="">An unsynchronised external random number generator - RNG1 (3) </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'" class="">– </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'" class="">(of specific design) a </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">stateful random number generator serves as the source of the perpetual truly random
</span><font face="Calibri" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">entropy key stream (the OTP pad, and therefore the “actual” key to the system). [</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">…</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">] </span></font><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">This allows for the random alteration of the
deterministic number generation process </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">– </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">making true random number generation using a
mathematical PRNG possible. </span></p></li></ul></div></div></div><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">There are relatively common mistakes in this paper. 1) it is keyed and therefore has not solved the first key problem and 2) it uses a PRNG and claims it is a Vernon cipher. </div><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div></div></body></html>