One more fake crypto challenge, $ 5M now: jawstech.com

Anonymous (nobody@replay.com)
Wed, 24 Jun 1998 22:24:35 +0200

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I thought that the usually good Good Morning Silicon Valley
(San Jose Mercury news http://www.mercurycenter.com/gmsv/)
would know better but they relayed one more of those
dangerous snake oil challenges. It may seem that intent here would be
to steal money from naive stock market investors:
Sample claims :
"JAWS Technologies Inc. announces the first unbreakable suite of public
and private-key encryption schemes known. Using a Base 13 calculation
algorithm, the routine uses the keys as a portion of the formulae to
decrypt, making it mathematically impossible given a large enough key.
The data is first shifted and then encrypted with a random number
generated at the time of encryption, used to determine password
authorization upon decryption."

Or
"
Comparisons
Network Associates 128 bit, 248 bit "NETA" Recent Price: $70.00
...
JAWS Technologies 4096 Public,4096 Private "JAWZ" Recent Price: $ 0.90
"

http://www.jawstech.com/

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