Rip Van Winkle adapted for other media for the last two centuries, in cartoons, films, stage plays, music, and other media. Rip Van Winkle "Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by the American author Washington Irving first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up 20 years later, having missed the American Revolution. Irving wrote it while living in Birmingham, England, as part of the collection "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent." The story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains, but Irving later
Rip van Winkle cipher it with the random numbers he remembers were transmitted T ago, to recover the original plaintext message. The delay T represents the "key" and must be securely communicated only once. Ueli Maurer says the original Rip van Winkle cipher is completely impractical, but it motivated a new approach to provable security. J.L. Massey and I. Ingemarsson. "The Rip van Winkle cipher - a simple and provably computationally secure cipher with a finite key." In Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Information Theory (Abstracts), page 146, 1985. Rip van Winkle cipher In cryptography, the Rip van Winkle cipher is a provably secure cipher