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Solitaire is a top-notch pencil-and-paper encryption system developed
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by Bruce Schneier. Here is the description in Schneier's own words:
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"Solitaire gets its security from the inherent randomness in a
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shuffled deck of cards. By manipulating this deck, a communicant
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can create a string of "random" letters that he then combines with
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his message. Of course Solitaire can be simulated on a computer,
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but it is designed to be implemented by hand.
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"Solitaire may be low-tech, but its security is intended to be
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high-tech. I designed Solitaire to be secure even against the most
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well-funded military adversaries with the biggest computers and the
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smartest cryptanalysts. Of course, there is no guarantee that someone
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won't find a clever attack against Solitaire, but the algorithm is
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certainly better than any other pencil-and-paper cipher I've ever
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seen."
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Simple system, easy to use, and relatively fast.
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WWW: http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Crypt-Solitaire
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Seamus Venasse <svenasse@polaris.ca>
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