Re: Writing own encryption program in Fortran?


sk8terg1rl wrote:
Hey guys,

Basically how I plan to do it is use a good PRNG like the Mersenne
Twister to generate a series of random numbers based on the seed, which
will be the decryption key.

Ugh. Don't use MT for encryption. Much too easy to break. OTOH, if
you don't mind sharing all your info with certain no-such-agencies, go
right ahead and roll your own. Chances are you'd do as well using
pig-latin insofar as professional cryptography is concerned. But if you
don't care about the pros reading your stuff, it won't matter.

.

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