1996-02-07 - Re: POTP gets good press

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
To: bryce@colorado.edu
Message Hash: 3a2b9516ab374d57857fabb09f24f4e057192da2f65923066e845471676a3e15
Message ID: <199602072010.PAA05161@jekyll.piermont.com>
Reply To: <199602071956.MAA17880@nagina.cs.colorado.edu>
UTC Datetime: 1996-02-07 20:46:00 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 04:46:00 +0800

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 04:46:00 +0800
To: bryce@colorado.edu
Subject: Re: POTP gets good press
In-Reply-To: <199602071956.MAA17880@nagina.cs.colorado.edu>
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Bryce writes:
> The Sun Observer -- "An Independent Journal Devoted to the 
> Sun and Compatible Markets" -- ran an article in the Feb 96
> issue entitled "New technology eliminates need for keys to
> encrypt e-mail messages".
[...]> 
> Am I right in thinking this is utter unmitigated
> bullsh snake oil?

Probably. Almost all such claims end up being crap. I haven't seen the
article yet so I can't say for sure, but 99% of the time these
companies have no idea what they are doing and feed the gullible lines
of utter bull. I don't know how so many of them survive in the market.

Perry

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• 1996-02-07 (Thu, 8 Feb 1996 04:19:00 +0800) - POTP gets good press - Bryce <wilcoxb@nagina.cs.colorado.edu>
  • 1996-02-07 (Thu, 8 Feb 1996 04:46:00 +0800) - Re: POTP gets good press - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
  • 1996-02-07 (Thu, 8 Feb 1996 05:47:34 +0800) - Re: POTP gets good press - Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
    • 1996-02-08 (Thu, 8 Feb 1996 11:20:38 +0800) - Re: POTP gets good press - Bryce <wilcoxb@nagina.cs.colorado.edu>
      • 1996-02-08 (Thu, 8 Feb 1996 10:45:57 +0800) - Re: POTP gets good press - Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
        • 1996-02-08 (Thu, 8 Feb 1996 10:29:30 +0800) - Re: POTP gets good press - Bryce <wilcoxb@taussky.cs.colorado.edu>
          • 1996-02-08 (Thu, 8 Feb 1996 18:35:43 +0800) - Re: POTP gets good press - Don <don@cs.byu.edu>