User talk:Mccsecurity

Welcome[edit]

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July 2008[edit]

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Questions[edit]

This discussion was copied here from Talk:Multiple channel cryptography, since that page is going to be deleted, and some of this text may be interesting for Mccsecurity to keep for some days. --David Göthberg (talk) 04:06, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

1: I read through this article, and it seems to be about a stream cipher. Public-key cryptography and stream ciphers are two very different things. So why does the introduction state: "is an emerging approach to public-key cryptography"

2: The section "Speed and Efficiency" states: "Stream ciphers are not the fastest method of encryption" Ehm, what? Stream ciphers usually are faster than any other encryption methods, faster than block ciphers and way faster than public-key cryptography.

--David Göthberg (talk) 14:21, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

1. Addressing both Q1 & 2, you are correct in pointing these things out, D. I had my web guy put the entry on WP and he has a limited understanding of things crypt.

-mccsecurity —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mccsecurity (talk • contribs) 18:23, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

So that leads to two follow up questions:

1: So why did you add this article to the template {{Crypto block}} at about the same time you wrote that answer?

2: And why does your blog (that you link to in the "References" section) claim that it is a block cipher?

--David Göthberg (talk) 16:10, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I just finished a major rewrite of the cipher. While I was editing the content to reflect the changes to the algorithm, I saw that there was discussion, so I checked to see what it was and responded to it. If the content does not qualify for inclusion in this site, then simply delete it and all references to it. Once I have seen that it is deleted, I will remove all links to it from elsewhere. Thank you, D.

-Mccsecurity —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mccsecurity (talk • contribs) 19:39, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind, I will attempt to delete it myself. I was unaware of the specific limitation regarding orginal research. Thank you for caling it to my attention.

-Mccsecurity —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mccsecurity (talk • contribs) 19:45, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, sorry about the notability demand and the limitation on original research. I am an engineer and researcher myself and have constructed, invented and discovered many things over the years. I know how tempting it is to publish at a place like this. But I have refrained from doing so.

I noticed this was done in "good faith" since you are not doing advertising for your company and you wrote "The algorithm is unpatented and freely available for use". Thus I wanted to check first and explain to you. Now that you know how it works all you have to do if you want to finish this yourself is to place this code at the top of the page: {{db-author}} . Then a Wikipedia admin will come along and delete the page. That template explains that "The author of the only substantial content has requested deletion" and it reports the page into a special category that is watched by admins. You don't need to blank the page or do any other changes first. But you can of course remove all links to the page from other pages.

And again, sorry about this.

And remember, you are very welcome to become a regular (or occasional) Wikipedia editor. For instance there are a lot of other things to do in the crypto area here. We always need more editors who are crypto knowledgeable! And you can join our WikiProject Cryptography. If you want some pointers where you can chat about crypto on the IRC or where you can find some good free crypto reading ask me at my talk page.

(I will copy this message to your talk page so it remains after the page has been deleted.)

--David Göthberg (talk) 03:26, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

End of section copied from Talk:Multiple channel cryptography. --David Göthberg (talk) 04:06, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]