From: Jeremey Barrett <jeremey@forequest.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 17:26:15 +0800
To: "M.Wagoner (1)" <safemail@ntrnet.net>
Subject: Re: SafE Mail Corporation
In-Reply-To: <199606172121.RAA00883@ns1.ntrnet.net>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960617203709.15881B-100000@descartes.forequest.com>
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Umm... how bout some details on your "proprietary" algorithms.  How exactly
is the public/private key pair generated? etc etc etc...

And WTF is "INTERNET-compatible"?  And what qualifies your product as
"INTERNET-compatible" and PGP as not "INTERNET-compatible"?

>From your "Confidence" web page, it seems that a password effectively
*IS* the private key, and on another page you state that the "public key"
is exactly 22 characters, generated "using a one way hash function", perhaps
some hash or variant of a hash of the password.  Pretty feeble.

On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, M.Wagoner (1) wrote:

> 
> We would like someone to be able or should I say try and crack our
> encryption. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Our Web site is http://www.sfmc.com  Phone number is 1-800-252-9938.
> 
> 
> 
> Randy Estridge
> SafE Mail Corporation  
> 
> 

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Jeremey Barrett
Senior Software Engineer			jeremey@forequest.com 
The ForeQuest Company       			http://www.forequest.com/

   "less is more."
		-- Mies van de Rohe.

   Ken Thompson has an automobile which he helped design.  Unlike most
   automobiles, it has neither speedometer, nor gas gage, nor any of the
   numerous idiot lights which plague the modern driver.  Rather, if the
   driver makes any mistake, a giant "?" lights up in the center of the
   dashboard.  "The experienced driver", he says, "will usually know
   what's wrong."

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