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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:18:51 ADT
Mordechai Ovits (movits@syndata.com)
Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:43:56 -0400
All this talk about snake oil reminds me of my all time favorite crypto
program:
Text Encrypt
I saw this program on www.winfiles.com
(http://www.winfiles.com/apps/98/encrypt-file.html)
It came with the ever reassuring statement:
"Have you ever wanted to keep information secure or send an Email without
the chance of someone else reading your message? Text Encrypt allows you to
select a text file and encrypt/descramble it. Now you can keep stuff at
home or around the office safe. If you need to send an Email, simply attach
the encypted (sic) file to your message and all the receiving party has to
do is to use the software - the encryption codes are encoded into the new
file, so you don't even have to send them passwords."
What an amazing feature! Talk about usability! :-)
Meganet's VME tops this for audacity, but not in cluelessness. Who would
you vote for in the prestigious "Snake Oil Award?"
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o Mordy Ovits
o Programmer / Cryptographer
o SynData Technologies Inc.
o Download A Free Copy Of Our Software At:
o http://www.syncrypt.com
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:18:51 ADT