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I recently asked a question on Cryptography, that involved an encryption that I wrote. Usually, asking simply "how good is this encryption" would be out of the scope for that site.

my question: being as this site is for reviewing code, would a "how crackable is this encryption" be in the scope of this site?

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I would have to agree with Michael K. A simple way to tell if your post is on-topic is to go through this checklist.

  1. Does my question contain code? (Please include the code in the question, not a link to it)
  2. Did I write that code?
  3. Is actual code from a project rather then pseudo-code or example code?
  4. To the best of your knowledge, does the code work?
  5. Do you want feedback about any or all facets of the code?

While your post did contain code, it is just example code that demonstrates how the algorithm work.

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No, it would not. Security is on topic, but an encryption algorithm is not code. You may explain it with code, but it is really an algorithm. My opinion is that algorithms are a high level design topic and are off topic.

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