Re: Snake Oil

Lewis McCarthy (lmccarth@cs.umass.edu)
Fri, 1 Jan 1999 00:33:17 -0500 (EST)

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I don't know where they went, but it would be interesting to find out.

A couple of years ago I posted a cryptanalysis of the Power One-Time Pad
to sci.cypt -- see http://www.cs.umass.edu/~lmccarth/crypto/potp.html

-Lewis

> what ever happened to Elementrix? who IMO created the first benchmark for
> snakeoilness in the modern age of crypto.
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> At 10:42 AM 12/30/98 -0600, Bruce Schneier wrote:
> >I'm writing an essay on Snake Oil (naming names). I've already used these
> >companies as examples:
> >
> > Meganet
> > Jaws Technology
> > Ultimate Privacy
> > TriStrata
> > GenioUSA
> > Crypt-O-Text
> > UBE98
> >
> >What other companies am I missing? URLs will help.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Bruce
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