Re: Encryption on the AS/400 -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: Encryption on the AS/400
From: "Nathan M. Andelin" <nandelin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:40:15 -0600
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>It appears to produce completely random output from
> virtually any data input.

Perhaps that statement could be more clear.  The output appears random.
But in addition, the range of variation is large, even when you encrypt a
constant stream of a single byte.  For example, if you were to encrypt a
stream of 1000 null bytes, the output would range the entire spectrum of
possibilities and would appear random.

Nathan M. Andelin
www.relational-data.com

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