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Adam Shostack (adam@homeport.org)
Tue, 23 Jun 1998 08:51:34 -0400 (EDT)
Actually, this is fabulous. Now we can sic these fellows on other
purveyors of snake oil who infringe their patent claims!
Eric Murray wrote:
| Mordechai Ovits writes:
| >
| > 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! :-)
|
|
| Not only is it useable, it's patented:
|
|
| File encryption method (Assignee -- Veritas Technology Solutions Ltd.)
|
| May 28, 1998
|
| Inventor(s): Kafri, Oded
| Patent Number: 5751814
| Issue Date: 1998 05 12
|
|
| Abstract: A file encryption method is provided which includes the
| steps of encrypting the text of the message to be sent,
| concatenating the encrypted text together with a password to the end
| of a decryption application to produce a combined file and
| converting the combined file to an electronic mail format. The file
| encryption method further includes the steps of transmitting and
| receiving the converted combined file, reconverting the converted
| combined file to its previous format and executing the combined file
| thereby to operate the decryption application on the encrypted text
| and thereby to produce the text of the message.
|
| Ex Claim Text: A method for transmitting and receiving encrypted
| messages, the method comprising the steps of: a. encrypting the text
| of the message to be sent; b. concatenating the encrypted text and a
| password to the end of a decryption application to produce a
| combined file; c. converting the combined file to an electronic mail
| format; d. transmitting and receiving the converted combined file;
| e. reconverting the converted combined file to its previous format;
| and f. executing the combined file thereby to operate the decryption
| application on the encrypted text and thereby to produce the text of
| the message.
|
|
| --
| Eric Murray Chief Security Scientist N*Able Technologies www.nabletech.com
| (email: ericm at lne.com or nabletech.com) PGP keyid:E03F65E5
|
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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:18:53 ADT