From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 09:37:12 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: SafE Mail Corporation
Message-ID: <199606181804.LAA13022@netcom8.netcom.com>
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At 12:55 AM 6/18/96 -0700, Lucky Green wrote:
>At 17:21 6/17/96, M.Wagoner (1 wrote:
>>We would like someone to be able or should I say try and crack our
>>encryption. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE.
>
>Sigh. Yet another one...
>
>Unless you make source code available, you will be at best ignored, and at
>worst sued by users of your product should they discover that your
>unbreakable encryption isn't so unbreakable after all. Unless you use a
>hardware RNG and OTPs, your statement that it is impossible to break your
>encryption software is simply false

Don't even assume that hardware RNGs and OTPs by themselves make a system
unbreakable.  Go see NSA's web site on the Verona intercepts to see what
people who know what they are doing can do when users slip up using a OTP
system.  http://www.nsa.gov:8080/

I'm with Lucky (and many others) 100% on this one.  Snake Oil.


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