Tell me about the scrambling algorithm.
The algorithm was developed over a three-year period by Rodger
Moffett. He has an advanced degree in
mathematical modeling and is pursuing a PhD in applied math. He started developing it when he saw the need
to keep information on his computer private – such as information he was
putting together for personnel reviews.
The algorithm is very complicated and produces a lot more text than
was received. It also is quite
unpredictable as the exact same text can be scrambled with the exact same
password and probably never look the same in the encoded form. There are literally billions of ways that it
can be scrambled.
It is slightly possible that someone with a lot of effort could
decode one section of scrambled text.
However, having done so, this only would work for that particular
section since there are billions of ways the scrambling can occur. The would-be hacker would probably have to
start from scratch on each new section.
So to make it tougher on the hackers, you simply encode the text in
several sections so that they have to work that much harder. In addition, the algorithm scrambles the text
several times. The user controls approximately
how many times it is scrambled by setting the scramble level beforehand.