debunking snake oil

[Ben Pfaff]

travis+ml-cryptography at subspacefield.org writes:

> So, when you find a particularly obnoxious dilettante going on about
> his bone-headed unbreakable scheme, please forward it to me and I'll
> see about breaking it, and then publish the schemes and the results on
> a web site for publicly "educating" them.  Honestly, there's probably
> no better way to educate people than to see schemes submitted and
> broken, and I'm not sure there's a good site for it, although there
> are plenty of books.  Unfortunately, these types won't be bothered to
> buy books since they already know everything.

Here's a particularly moronic scheme:
       http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds11-3/xorencrypt.html
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