Re: What are the chances of this encrytion being broken?

On 25/03/2025 10:05, Rich wrote:

hal@invalid.com wrote:

>
To hell with the problem. None of those guys you mentioned give a dang
about what the scattered mess of characters in one of my files mean.  As
for anyone in my personal world,  they'd look at a PGP message and think
my E-mail program screwed up the message and made it an unreadable mess.
>
Problem solved.
>
Thanks for answering.
>

 And the group award for "new AOB" goes to hal@invalid.com....

I'd say we're an algorithm short of a crank. Anyone can post a ciphertext:
33 EA B3 38 48 0D F3 00 51 A4 C9 8D 24 FE F9 00
A3 71 21 62 14 FB F7 00 44 16 EC 96 2A E3 EC 00
D4 D8 7E 7A 00 7F FE 00 79 36 B9 43 84 7C FD 00
FC 6A 8C 02 62 03 FC 00 9D 0C 60 04 60 7F FD 00
18 0F AE 07 88 FE BC 00
See?
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