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Bruce Schneier (schneier@counterpane.com)
Sat, 20 Jun 1998 08:40:01 -0500
At 10:42 PM 6/19/98 -0700, Lucky Green wrote:
>At 07:31 98/06/19 -0500, Bruce Schneier wrote:
>>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.
>
>There are dozens, if not hundreds, of snake oil crypto programs out there.
>I would be surprised if Meganet had 500 customers. Meganet is just one of
>the many snake oil vendors. Within that industry, prize offers abound.
>Anyone remember the company that offered $1,000,000 for breaking their
>crypto system a few years ago? Their design was broken on Cypherpunks
>within a day. I don't recall anyone receiving a reward. Rather than
>spending precious cycles on snake oil that hardly anybody uses, let's focus
>on debunking potentially insecure systems that are widely deployed.
>
>The new RSA Mondex cards and the six non-COMP128 GSM providers come to mind.
Get me specs.
Bruce
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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:18:48 ADT