From: mixmaster@vishnu.alias.net (Mr. Boffo)
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 14:52:54 +0800
To: ipgsales@cyberstation.net
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ipgsales@cyberstation.net wrote:

>Those of you who have had all of the materials will understand the 
>foregoing. With the information provided heretofore, you can determine  
>the effect on the other two systems. Also, those people will know my 
>expressed fear of a premature announcement, such as that which has 
>now been made, would have. This was the reason, that I resisted 
>so strongly the release of the materials to the C'punks list 
>though a few of you recommended that I do so. Perhaps we should have 
>released everything? Who knows. However, in any case, that is water
>over the dam and IPG must go on from here. It is only another of the many 
>mistakes that we will undoubtedly make along the way. 
>
>Having said that though, we must go back to our prior 
>evaluation method, a strict confidential mode. However, I believe that we 
>have added several very good additional people who can help to analyze 
>the system.

English translation:

We didn't want to release our algorithm because we were afraid
somebody might find a weakness.  Sure enough, somebody did.
So I guess we're going to keep it a secret after all.

Hey, kids, security through obscurity just doesn't work.