Path: cactus.org!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!EU.net! + Germany.EU.net!netmbx.de!zib-berlin.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!news.uni- + mainz.de!usenet From: pom@katrin.imsd.uni-mainz.DE (Prof. Dr. Klaus Pommerening) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: Block Mixing Transformations Date: 16 Mar 1994 13:52:10 GMT Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Lines: 18 Message-ID: <2m72ua$9fb@bambi.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE> References: <1994Mar16.093035.1330@cactus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: katrin.imsd.uni-mainz.de In article <1994Mar16.093035.1330@cactus.org> ritter@cactus.org (Terry Ritter) writes: > Frankly, I think the *practice* of Science--and especially > cryptography--is benefitted more from the exposure of reasonable > wrong approaches than right ones. Nobody comes up with only great > ideas; to publish only after a great one is finally found and > confirmed is to hide what the work of Science actually is. The > work is the process, not the result. There will always be another > result. I fully agree. I've learned some useful things from Terry Ritter's recent postings. -- Klaus Pommerening Institut fuer Medizinische Statistik und Dokumentation der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet D-55101 Mainz, Germany