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Bruce Schneier (schneier@counterpane.com)
Fri, 19 Jun 1998 07:31:08 -0500
Don't do it for the money; do it for the fun and the publicity. Companies
that make outlandish crypto claims should be slammed. Someone do the
reverse-engineering; I'll do the cryptanalysis.
Bruce
At 07:30 PM 6/18/98 -0800, Bill Frantz wrote:
>I'd like to see the color of their money before burning too much time. An
>interest bearing escrow account would be just fine.
>
>At 12:33 PM -0800 6/18/98, Bruce Schneier wrote:
>>Get a copy and let's reverse-engineer the algorithm. It'll be fun; we can
>>give the money to EPIC or something.
>>
>>At 09:34 AM 6/18/98 -0400, Zachary Roger Amsden wrote:
>>>Anyone seen www.meganet.com? I tried to access meganet after seeing a
>>>Simpsons episode, and guess what there is one. They have some thing
>>>called
>>>VME (Virtual Matrix Encryption), and it is complete trash snake oil.
>>>They claim that they have an algorithm called DLA that will decrypt to
>>>garbage after it's expiration date. I'm sure you all know that is not
>>>possible unless they have a time machine and the ability to change
>>>fundamental properties of mathematics. They are offerring $100,000 to
>>>break their garbage encryption every month, but they ain't giving out
>>>code. And they give a new challenge every month (to avoid brute force,
>>>I would assume). The obscurity on this one looks pretty thick, but if
>>>they were a true secure system they wouldn't need it. I just thought it
>>>was time to blow the whistle. I hope this hasn't already been discussed
>>>to death.
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