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Cheers.—[[User:InternetArchiveBot|'''<span style="color:darkgrey;font-family:monospace">InternetArchiveBot</span>''']] <span style="color:green;font-family:Rockwell">([[User talk:InternetArchiveBot|Report bug]])</span> 00:53, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
== This article is missing an elegant Introduction. ==
When I read this article before, it had the language "...began by indentifying a Markov Chain..."
I was able to understand Markov Chaining to be the mathematical process of identifying when a Shepherd with the following conditions worked his black sheep dog in a particular pasture on Thursday/Thursdays.
1. He has three (3) pastures, on which he grazes his sheep on a rotating basis.
2. He has two (2) Sheep dogs; a black one and a white one, which he alternates working.
3. There are seven named days in a week, which occur in a rotating order, and the shepherd works seven days a week.
If I understand correctly, IDEA is a substitution process acting on a PASSWORD DEPENDENT Markov Chain with an astronomical period/periodicity. This as an introduction makes the strength of the algorithm very comprehensible, and demystifies it.
As it stands, the article appears to be written for University students of a single discipline, who universally use one set of nomenclature with which ALL are familiar. The article WOULD NOT serve a high school student trying to write a demo IDEA in BASIC or Python. It WOULD serve the persistent cryptanalyst of a nation state in knowing how best to attack it OR cast doubt on its safety for everyday use. Bad guys exist, true, but it is desirable to read something a layman can comprehend. Wikipedia is universally disallowed as a Source for a white paper.
Having cast aspersion, I want to document _some_ consideration that Wikipedia is ALSO a place to document suppressed or otherwise secret knowledge which is not available to ALL in University White Papers, so there's that as well.
Thanks for all your work. [[User:Formfollows|Formfollows]] ([[User talk:Formfollows|talk]]) 05:05, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
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