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# Rewriting Email Pt. 2
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/rewriting-email-pt-2/
- Published: 1999-01-22T07:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2016-06-02T07:32:36.000Z
- Description: Following last weeks story of the sixteen-year-old rewriting the email code, we has a highly informative reply from “Ted”…
- Author: Protein
- Tags: SEEDS, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:21

Following last weeks story of the sixteen-year-old rewriting the email code, we has a highly informative reply from “Ted” at his “Desk.nl”:  
  
“Sending email doesn’t have anything to do with a ‘data protection code.’ She seems to have developed a new cryptographic algorithm, which could be applied to any form of data, including that which is sent as ‘email.’ In fact, though, the encrypted text produced by this algorithm of hers is many times longer than the unencrypted plaintext (whereas for RSA, i.e., the 3 MIT students) it is about the same size &√Ǭ£45;- so a message encrypted with her algorithm would be about ten times \*slower\*.”   
  
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