Principles of Modernising the One-Time Pad Cipher. – site upload - Adacrypt
adacrypt
The modernizing of this cipher has been ongoing for several years by
the writer and is complete now. The principles involved are spelled
out in this upload document to http://www.adacrypt.com . The document
is entirely descriptive and historic, it contains no mathematics. The
mechanics of how it works is contained in an earlier upload to the
same website called “ASCII-Pad Cipher”, the source code in Ada-95 is
available in some 60 megabytes of downloadable code that comes with a
compiler, both of these items are there for the taking to readers of
sci crypt.
Overview.
This cryptography like all previous work from this writer presumes an
adventurous exploratory attitude to finding and developing new cipher
ideas as an ambition for the general good of cryptography. Only new
ciphers that can surpass existing ciphers are considered by the writer
and comparisons with old ciphers (that I have come to despise because
of their temporal value only and the parasitical industry that lives
off their defects) are made only to make the case for scrapping these
completely at any opportune time, that may come sooner than
expected.. It is well known how massively expensive it is to change
existing infrastructures gratuitously but it may well happen that an
unwelcome change is thrust on the establishment whether they like it
or not in the next few years by the advent of new quantum computers,
this will require just such a change of operation. A recent advance by
Manchester University has brought that possibility a bit closer and it
seems now that it is only a matter of time before it materializes that
a new powerful quantum machine is up and running. When this happens
there will be fears for the crypto industry because both AES and the
RSA ciphers will go on the scrap heap due to the massive ‘brute force’
capability of these new computers. What will go on the scrap heap
also is the huge peripheral industry of publishing, conferencing,
marketing of academic courses, computer software, all of which is
firmly entrenched at present as the status quo. It is a ‘nice little
earner’ for many.
It is not too soon therefore to start thinking of what preparation
should be made by cryptographers to counteract this when it happens.
The common computer itself is probably the greatest evidence of what
human beings can do today so it is very likely that success is only a
matter of time for large quantum computers to be realized also.
However long or short it takes for quantum computing to arrive, if it
does arrive, it is good to know that there is cryptography to hand
already that is immune to brute force by such computers and this only
needs to be recognized by the authorities and commissioned for use in
main stream cryptography at a moment’s notice. There is no hard sell
promotion needed to prove this since it is already demonstrated by
mathematical proof. The cryptography in question is a modernized One-
Time Pad cipher.
Historic OTP
The historic OTP cipher has suffered mostly from bad publicity and has
been largely overlooked by researchers who did not avail of the
powerful new science of computing to update and modernize it. The
surge of interest in number-theoretic cryptography in the seventies by
Diffie and Hellman that produced asymmetric encryption (itself not
much of a discovery) was a distraction but it led to the eventual
realization of the RSA cipher which is a profound piece of work. The
RSA team were responding to a brief from Diffie to produce an
asymmetric cipher, the success of this unfortunately took the
spotlight away from the application of computer science in other
directions in the search for other cipher types and the historic OTP
was one of these. It may be that people wrongly believed that any
future cipher of their discovery would have to be as complex as the
new RSA cipher and were overawed by that task.
Major Joseph Mauborgne’s OTP has the outstanding attraction of being
de facto unbreakable in class and it should have been an immediate
target for computer scientist / cryptographers wanting to use computer
power to upgrade it to main stream cryptography but that did not
happen.
The drawbacks of the original OTP were nothing more than management
problems of the day that a few lines of modern computer source code
could fix but this fact went unnoticed. Perhaps this was due to the
impact of the RSA cipher and the hype that surrounded it at the time
but scientists are supposed to be above such emotional stuff, the
upshot was that the OTP continued to have nothing more than crop
circle status.
The updated OTP on the table now by the writer is a powerful cipher
with special properties that may never be superceded by any future
ciphers of any design. It is here to stay whatever the dissident camp
politics may say to the contrary.
OTP as the design basis for all future computer-driven cryptography.
Paradoxically, the OTP may become the unwitting design basis for all
future computer-based ciphers. Readers will realize that this happens
automatically as a natural consequence of programming stream ciphers
in the way each plaintext is read in, one at a time, encrypted with
its own key element so that the growing key-string is always equal to
the cipher text string in length, the keys are computer-scrambled
afresh each time to make a new random key which means one-time usage
adherence in every message, all of this without the modular
constraints of the original Vigenere-based OTP. The caveat of
theoretically unbreakable class is being fulfilled automatically by
every cipher in what is clearly a modern computer cloning of the
famous OTP algorithm from Joseph Mauborgne. It follows that the
ensuing cipher text may claim the same unbreakable class as the OTP it
is emulating, albeit there is no ‘pad’ per se but a computer array of
various data instead. This is the most pleasant piece of crypto
symbiosis imaginable to this writer, i.e modern computer ciphers
solving the management problems of the historic OTP while at the same
time benefiting from this by claiming the same theoretically
unbreakable class of the OTP that it is emulating because of having
the same design schematic. What a vindicating prospect this is for the
OTP, a cipher that was almost a joke once upon a time. “The stone
rejected by the builders became the corner stone” could never be more
true outside of its religious context, the humble OTP becoming
recognized as the father of all modern computer-based cryptography is
the new paradox of the famous OTP.
The Modern OTP.
It is time to recognise the huge potential of this cipher, a crypto
resource that has been gifted to us from the past by Joseph Mauborgne.
This clever cipher could be lost to cryptography due to nothing more
than culpable neglect. The working prototype is up and running on my
website.
This modernized OTP cipher is immune to computer power for all time, a
property of ciphers that is becoming more and more essential as the
‘brute force’ threat of quantum computers gets nearer. – Enjoy –
Adacrypt
This modernised one-time pad cipher being called variously “ASCII_Pad
Cipher” and “An ASCII Modulated Vigenere Cipher” is dedicated to
Major Joseph Mauborgne who invented scientific randomness in
cryptography and also simultaneously invented the original OTP, he was
Head of Cryptographic Research for the US army in the 1920’s.
http://www.adacrypt.com to see this most recent upload called
“Principles of Modernising the One-Time Pad Cipher” (this is well
worth reading), see also “ ASCII_Pad Cipher” and “Down loadable
Source code for ASCII_Pad Cipher”.
David Eather
A warning to all new in cryptography - adacrypt has no idea about what
he is doing and has no idea about cryptography in general. He tops that
off by being completely opposed to learning anything about cryptography.
adacrypt wrote:
> The modernizing of this cipher has been ongoing for several years by
> the writer and is complete now. The principles involved are spelled
> out in this upload document to http://www.adacrypt.com . The document
> is entirely descriptive and historic, it contains no mathematics. The
> mechanics of how it works is contained in an earlier upload to the
> same website called �ASCII-Pad Cipher�, the source code in Ada-95 is
> available in some 60 megabytes of downloadable code that comes with a
> compiler, both of these items are there for the taking to readers of
> sci crypt.
>
> Overview.
> This cryptography like all previous work from this writer presumes an
> adventurous exploratory attitude to finding and developing new cipher
> ideas as an ambition for the general good of cryptography. Only new
> ciphers that can surpass existing ciphers are considered by the writer
> and comparisons with old ciphers (that I have come to despise because
> of their temporal value only and the parasitical industry that lives
> off their defects) are made only to make the case for scrapping these
> completely at any opportune time, that may come sooner than
> expected.. It is well known how massively expensive it is to change
> existing infrastructures gratuitously but it may well happen that an
> unwelcome change is thrust on the establishment whether they like it
> or not in the next few years by the advent of new quantum computers,
> this will require just such a change of operation. A recent advance by
> Manchester University has brought that possibility a bit closer and it
> seems now that it is only a matter of time before it materializes that
> a new powerful quantum machine is up and running. When this happens
> there will be fears for the crypto industry because both AES and the
> RSA ciphers will go on the scrap heap due to the massive �brute force�
> capability of these new computers. What will go on the scrap heap
> also is the huge peripheral industry of publishing, conferencing,
> marketing of academic courses, computer software, all of which is
> firmly entrenched at present as the status quo. It is a �nice little
> earner� for many.
>
> It is not too soon therefore to start thinking of what preparation
> should be made by cryptographers to counteract this when it happens.
> The common computer itself is probably the greatest evidence of what
> human beings can do today so it is very likely that success is only a
> matter of time for large quantum computers to be realized also.
>
> However long or short it takes for quantum computing to arrive, if it
> does arrive, it is good to know that there is cryptography to hand
> already that is immune to brute force by such computers and this only
> needs to be recognized by the authorities and commissioned for use in
> main stream cryptography at a moment�s notice. There is no hard sell
> promotion needed to prove this since it is already demonstrated by
> mathematical proof. The cryptography in question is a modernized One-
> Time Pad cipher.
>
>
> Historic OTP
> The historic OTP cipher has suffered mostly from bad publicity and has
> been largely overlooked by researchers who did not avail of the
> powerful new science of computing to update and modernize it. The
> surge of interest in number-theoretic cryptography in the seventies by
> Diffie and Hellman that produced asymmetric encryption (itself not
> much of a discovery) was a distraction but it led to the eventual
> realization of the RSA cipher which is a profound piece of work. The
> RSA team were responding to a brief from Diffie to produce an
> asymmetric cipher, the success of this unfortunately took the
> spotlight away from the application of computer science in other
> directions in the search for other cipher types and the historic OTP
> was one of these. It may be that people wrongly believed that any
> future cipher of their discovery would have to be as complex as the
> new RSA cipher and were overawed by that task.
>
> Major Joseph Mauborgne�s OTP has the outstanding attraction of being
> is emulating, albeit there is no �pad� per se but a computer array of
> various data instead. This is the most pleasant piece of crypto
> symbiosis imaginable to this writer, i.e modern computer ciphers
> solving the management problems of the historic OTP while at the same
> time benefiting from this by claiming the same theoretically
> unbreakable class of the OTP that it is emulating because of having
> the same design schematic. What a vindicating prospect this is for the
> OTP, a cipher that was almost a joke once upon a time. �The stone
> rejected by the builders became the corner stone� could never be more
> true outside of its religious context, the humble OTP becoming
> recognized as the father of all modern computer-based cryptography is
> the new paradox of the famous OTP.
>
> The Modern OTP.
> It is time to recognise the huge potential of this cipher, a crypto
> resource that has been gifted to us from the past by Joseph Mauborgne.
> This clever cipher could be lost to cryptography due to nothing more
> than culpable neglect. The working prototype is up and running on my
> website.
>
> This modernized OTP cipher is immune to computer power for all time, a
> property of ciphers that is becoming more and more essential as the
> �brute force� threat of quantum computers gets nearer. � Enjoy �
> Adacrypt
>
> This modernised one-time pad cipher being called variously �ASCII_Pad
> Cipher� and �An ASCII Modulated Vigenere Cipher� is dedicated to
> Major Joseph Mauborgne who invented scientific randomness in
> cryptography and also simultaneously invented the original OTP, he was
> Head of Cryptographic Research for the US army in the 1920�s.
>
> http://www.adacrypt.com to see this most recent upload called
> �Principles of Modernising the One-Time Pad Cipher� (this is well
> worth reading), see also � ASCII_Pad Cipher� and �Down loadable
> Source code for ASCII_Pad Cipher�.
Boon
adacrypt wrote:
> The modernizing of this cipher has been ongoing for several years by
> the writer and is complete now.
Could you ask the writer whether the writer thinks highly of the writer?