From: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 07:53:01 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: IPG message
Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960321204027.00942628@mail.teleport.com>
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[IPG legal nonsense deleted]
>     1. The use of the word Ultima for the system, because it is 
>        impossible to have a either a more secure system - it is 
>        impossible to break the Ultima system, other equally difficult  
>        to break systems may exist, or may be formulated in the future,
>        for example a true OTP,  and in those cases, they may 
>        "theoretically" be more difficult to break than the IPG Ultima 
>        System, for example a true OTP. However, that would exist only in 
>        theory, because in those eventiualities, none of the 
>        systems would be breakable.

I wonder what Lord British (of the famed Ultima computer game series) would
have to say about the trademark of this name?  (Not to mention the
incredible run-on sentence...)

The more I read their prose, the more I think that they must be
experimenting with ergotic chemistry on the side.
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