1993-05-29 - VinCrypt

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From: Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: a74b3d16ebacfa0497f259d5e79ced1999caed88f165ef8c89a49eae4c401b0b
Message ID: <9305281652.AA13454@soda.berkeley.edu>
Reply To: <9305271514.AA26019@snark.shearson.com>
UTC Datetime: 1993-05-29 04:37:59 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 28 May 93 21:37:59 PDT

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From: Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>
Date: Fri, 28 May 93 21:37:59 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: VinCrypt
In-Reply-To: <9305271514.AA26019@snark.shearson.com>
Message-ID: <9305281652.AA13454@soda.berkeley.edu>
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>This even bites the best of us. Phil Zimmermann [...]

PGP 1.0 had Phil's Bass-o-matic cipher, which he subsequently dropped.
When I first saw that, I thought to myself, "snake oil," but not in
those words.  I'm glad that lesson got learned.

>I, for one, will never use any crypto system for which the algorithm
>hasn't been extensively published and scrutinized.

I am in total agreement.

Eric

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• 1993-05-27 (Wed, 26 May 93 17:03:41 PDT) - Re: VinCrypt - Clark Reynard <clark@metal.psu.edu>
  • 1993-05-27 (Wed, 26 May 93 19:33:31 PDT) - Re: VinCrypt - J. Michael Diehl <mdiehl@triton.unm.edu>
    • 1993-05-27 (Thu, 27 May 93 08:15:14 PDT) - Re: VinCrypt - “Perry E. Metzger” <pmetzger@lehman.com>
      • 1993-05-29 (Fri, 28 May 93 21:37:59 PDT) - VinCrypt - Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>
        • 1993-06-03 (Thu, 3 Jun 93 15:13:25 PDT) - Re: snake oil - Nickey MacDonald <i6t4@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
          • 1993-06-03 (Thu, 3 Jun 93 15:53:03 PDT) - Re: snake oil - Marc Horowitz <marc@GZA.COM>
          • 1993-06-03 (Thu, 3 Jun 93 16:55:05 PDT) - Re: snake oil - “Perry E. Metzger” <pmetzger@lehman.com>
            • 1993-06-04 (Fri, 4 Jun 93 01:39:37 PDT) - Re: snake oil (Posting ciphers to the list) - tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
          • 1993-06-04 (Thu, 3 Jun 93 18:10:18 PDT) - snake oil - Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>
  • 1993-05-27 (Thu, 27 May 93 12:53:57 PDT) - Re: VinCrypt - “Ian S. Nelson” <ian@bvsd.Co.EDU>