tbh you can try to create a better one and get rich from it if you want, im rooting for you
The problem with encryption is once you sell it, you also have to add it to the internet archive (which is how I know they were almost identical), basically explaining how the encryption and ciphers work.
There's a reason I never tried to sell the encryption, because I used it to protect my code
The encryption
code was actually encrypted inside another weaker encryption and ran dynamically.
Possibly the most intense thing I have ever made.
The female user or the type of encryption? The user who made it, I don't recall tbh, I was young and obviously pretty pissed off about the fact lmao.
The encryption was WPA2, based on a "key" randomly placed in the data and located by another encryption that would reveal the position of it, its still used in block chains and such.
The general concept is that every time it was encrypted, the resulting data would be entirely different (in this case, every packet sent), in my case every time the file was saved again.
Making it almost impossible to crack as long as it was constantly sending or saving.
You're American, you should've known to patent everything you create or think of. Lots of money in patent trollin'.
This is going to shock you, I was between 12-14yrs old...and I invented encryption that the Department Of Defense didn't implement till almost 5yrs later
The general internet came after, we never get it first.
If I was ever a wizar, encryption would have been my magic trick
This makes me remind Zuck's story who created Fb with a stolen idea and today is one of the richest person.
You were unlucky but next time you create something don't tell it to anyone. I'm saying this but probally If I were you I'd done exactly the same you did
Bill gates, Windows* was technically a product of IBM
www.humblebundle.com
and the point of that was kind of fuzzy 
but it was fucking funny