Re: ALPHACIPHER - An unbreakable encryption program.

[Ryan Russell/SYBASE <Ryan.Russell@sybase.com>]

Now there's a business I'd like to get into.... reselling 
pseudo-random bit strings....

    Ryan

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From: roy @ sendai.scytale.com (Roy M. Silvernail) @ smtp
Date: 09/10/96 07:14:33 AM
Subject: Re: ALPHACIPHER - An unbreakable encryption program.

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In alt.security, survival@aa.net writes:

[ attribution scrambled ]

>> True, but somehow I have a feeling that Alphacipher is not a one-time
>> pad, and thus is breakable.
>
> This assumption is not true.  ALPHACIPHER is, indeed, based upon an OTP. 
> We've solved all of the problems associated with pad creation,
> distribution, packaging and many other concerns that have previously
> limited the use of a cipher in this class.

Their web page alludes to a OTP-like operation where you have to
purchase key "refills".  It doesn't say where they store the escrowed
copies of the key material.

> Visit our net page at http://www.aa.net/cyber-survival-hq for more
> information, and read the reply in response to the unfounded attack by
> Curtin, posted above.

I recommend this page, if only for the great conspiracy theory about
automated telephone line scanning.
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           Roy M. Silvernail     [ ]      roy@scytale.com
PGP Public Key fingerprint =  31 86 EC B9 DB 76 A7 54  13 0B 6A 6B CC 09 18 B6
                Key available from pubkey@scytale.com

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