From: "Bruce Balden" <balden@mail.bc.rogers.wave.ca>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 05:16:02 +0800
To: <jya@pipeline.com>
Subject: Re: VME As AES?
Message-ID: <01bd0b2e$23b97600$69737018@eudoxus.bc.rogers.wave.ca>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain



I don't suppose the instinctive avoidance of security by obscurity
(validated by many problems in the past, especially the Enigma cipher used
by the Wehrmacht) has penetrated the great cryptographic minds o Meganet?

-----Original Message-----
From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Date: Wednesday, December 17, 1997 12:13 PM
Subject: VME As AES?


>PR Newswire, December 17, 1997:
>
>Los Angeles -- IBM telephoned Meganet Corporation ten days ago
>after reviewing the Virtual Matrix Encryption (VME) algorithm and
>highly recommended the VME technology to be the national
>standard for data encryption, reported Meganet. The IBM
>spokesperson from the Security Technology Division requested
>immediate submission of VME to the National Institute of Standards
>& Technology and the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers to
>facilitate the standardization. Obviously, Meganet's claim that their
>VME technology is completely impenetrable has garnered much
>support.
>
>Source: Meganet Corporation. http://www.meganet.com
>