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Lazakaria 1969 <[email protected]> Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 5:23 AM To: Algorithms Editorial Office <[email protected]>
To Chairman of Algorithms Editorial Office Dear Sir.
We thank all reviewers for their advice and positive statements about our article. In particular, we would like to comment on the second reviewer's views/thoughts, who still does not recommend our article to publish in the Algorithm journal. In particular, we consider the results of the third round reviewer as follows:
1. The lack of the 2nd reviewer's knowledge of the encryption procedure that we're saying is something that seems strange. He/She tells the misunderstanding despite the encryption steps that we have written very clearly on line 187 to line 213. If what he/she means is the program script that we're doing, of course, we don't mind showing it in a journal. But we'll give it to him if he asks for it personally. And it should be noted that we will certainly not be able to do encryption and publish it. It's a reader's job to figure out how the procedure we described was implemented in Matlab/Maple/Mathematica/Phyton/C++ programming language or others).
2. About an image recommended by the second reviewer to take an example of Lena's image so that mapping analysis can be done and compared to other maps, it seems compelling. He/She assumes that Lena's image is necessary to be accepted in the cryptographic tool test. The second reviewer has yet to receive our reason that any image can be used as an experiment object (including the image we've shown). This image is not a camera-like image of Lena, so it can be a new study if you want to be used as an existing chaotic mapping test object. The second reviewer should have taken our idea to strengthen his argument about the chaotic mapping that he understood and held well. If the reviver takes our script to produce Figure 2, we'll gladly give it to him. Lena images may be standard used by most experts but not the only measuring tool for the ability of a cryptographic tool (chaotic mapping) to declare it "best." I suggest that the reviewer use Figure 2 or similar (Fractal image) to test the number of maps he knows.
3. The reviewer's thinking might be correct for colored images showing a histogram color test. Image color tests are lazily used using histograms separately, horizontally, vertically, and diagonally. Maybe this is our weakness that we can't cover because we haven't done it all this time. However, the mapping we're offering is a tool that anyone can test, including their reviewer, if he wants to find out the post side of the mapping that we're proposing instead of blaming us for not doing the color test he wants.
4. We did not provide entropy analysis in this article. But, we already stated in our conclusion that we cannot conclude our mapping is the best mapping with the conditions available. That means that further analysis, such as entropy analysis, is required. Our comparison may not be perfect, but it could be a reader's record that our mapping can be continued. Didn't the research never stop to an article?
We concluded that the second reviewer did find our article's weakness from what we said above, so he/she
did not recommend that our article be published in Algorithms journal. But we also concluded that the
second reviewer did not comprehend the content of our article comprehensively. The second reviewer's
inability to read our encryption procedure suggests he doesn't understand the mathematical essence in his use
of cryptography.
For the reasons that we have presented above, we hereby withdraw our article for further processing in the Algorithms Journal. Hopefully we can write even better in the future. Thank you for the kindness of Algorithms Journal's Editors that has facilitated our article.
Best Regards,
La Zakaria.
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Stella Xu <[email protected]> Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 4:06 PM
To: Lazakaria 1969 <[email protected]>
Cc: Algorithms <[email protected]>
Dear Dr. Zakaria,
Thank you for your feedback.
We will invite our extra editor to check your rebuttal, please let us know if you have any questions.
Wish you all the best in your research.
Best wishes, Ms. Stella Xu/MDPI Assistant Editor
Algorithms (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/Algorithms) On 2020/12/22 16:54, Algorithms wrote:
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Lazakaria 1969 <[email protected]> Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 4:22 PM To: Stella Xu <[email protected]>
Dear Ms. Stella Xu/MDPI
We are happy and agree with your thoughts. And we are willing to wait for the assessment results of the addi�onal assessments that you mean.
Best Regards, Zakaria
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Stella Xu <[email protected]> Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 4:41 PM
To: Lazakaria 1969 <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Dear Dr. Zakaria,
Thank you for your feedback.
We will inform you once we receive the decision from the extra editor.
Feel free to let us know if you have any questions.
Best wishes, Ms. Stella Xu/MDPI Assistant Editor
Algorithms (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/Algorithms) On 2020/12/22 17:22, Lazakaria 1969 wrote:
Dear Ms. Stella Xu/MDPI
We are happy and agree with your thoughts. And we are willing to wait for the assessment results of the additional assessments that you mean.
Best Regards, Zakaria
On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 4:06 PM Stella Xu <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Dear Dr. Zakaria,
Thank you for your feedback.
We will invite our extra editor to check your rebuttal, please let us know if you have any questions.
Wish you all the best in your research.
Best wishes,
Ms. Stella Xu/MDPI Assistant Editor Algorithms (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/Algorithms) On 2020/12/22 16:54, Algorithms wrote:
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