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Is this as insecure as it sounds (was FWD: Complete Fax Privacy Draws C
This turned up on alt.anonymous. One would need a technical specification
or a working model to be sure, but it sounds like home-grown snake oil
to me. My guess is that a nineteenth-century cryptanalyst could crack
this, and that the TLAs would have a field day.
What do other people think?
>
> Complete Fax Privacy Draws Closer
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>
> Individuals receiving faxes, be they of a business or
> personal nature, will soon be able to encrypt the contents and
> make them unreadable to people for whom the messages are not
> intended.
> The new fax encryption technology has been developed by the
> University of Rochester in New York. The encryption program
> would make all faxes unreadable to the naked eye. Only by
> placing a customized transparent plastic sheet over the message
> could it be made readable. Each individual, employee or manager
> would be issued with his own plastic sheet and encryption key
> ensuring messages are only read by those specified in the message
> itself. The encryption software would not slow the transmission
> and reception of fax messages and the cost of installing the
> system on to existing machines would be minimal.
> Such software would be indispensable to those whose
> activities require the utmost confidentiality or privacy. Nosy
> employees, rivals, those providing faxing services and anybody
> else who has, until now, had a birds eye view of your fax
> communications could be successfully abolished from the security
> equation.
> Though the software has yet to be refined into a marketable
> commodity, it is set to be introduced for public consumption in
> the very near future.
>
>
> Adam Starchild
> Asset Protection & Becoming Judgement Proof at
> http://www.catalog.com/corner/taxhaven
>
>
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