[Cryptography] Terakey, An Encryption Method Whose Security Can Be Analyzed from First Principles

[Ben Laurie]

On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 at 00:49, Arnold Reinhold via cryptography <
cryptography at metzdowd.com> wrote:

> Thanks for your comments. What I am doing is quite similar to the additive
> books you describe, with the important difference that because mass storage
> has gotten so cheap, we can afford to make the “book” tens of millions of
> times bigger than what was possible in WW II. Most of the security of
> Terakey is based on this fact alone.
>

Tens of million times bigger means you can do 3s of thousands times as much
traffic. I suspect we do a lot more than that, relative to WWII.
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