Python TripleSec encryption

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What do cryptographers have to say about this?

Also, it is not really triple encrypting anything. For example, lets say we have 3 functions x+7, x3, x/9 and we apply these in turn to a secret value x. Is it triple calculated? Or triple encrypted? Or have we just created a new untested algorithm called (x+7)3 /9? And note that we could simplify this to 1/3 * (x+7).

If you think of encryption as a twisting and tangling process, how do you know that the subsequent steps don't do some untwisted and untangling, in effect canceling out early encryption?

Let's just say that Ronald Rivest cannot answer your question, so the claim here is "If you believe the soundness of RSA (or any crypto for that matter), then you should believe TripleSec." This, of course, is because they are all based on the same axiomatic assumptions, which should leave you wanting to crack a book open.

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