From: "Seth I. Rich" <seth@hygnet.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 01:08:48 +0800
To: lyalc@ozemail.com.au>
Subject: Re: Cybank breaks new ground; rejects public-key encryption
Message-ID: <199607181335.JAA28123@arkady.hygnet.com>
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C Matthew Curtin (cmcurtin@megasoft.com) wrote:

>People need to learn that the sort of snake oil that is being sold as
>"secure" just won't cut it. Your concern for the customers of Cybank
>is valid, however, so I propose something along these lines:
>
>Announce, very publicly, such that every Cybanlk customer would hear
>about it in time, that you have cracked their hokey little non-crypto
>scheme, and that you intend to publish your work in a full-disclosure
>paper to be published on Month Day, Year. [...]

I chuckled when this whole Cybank thing started.  Only a month or so
ago, they had some funky bug in their mail system such that all their
internal email was being cc'd to the First Virtual users' mailing list
(and also to one poor individual).  They were helpless and completely
unable to figure it out, as we watched their (not very happy) internal
messages float unrequested into our mailboxes.

Seth
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