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Re: p.s. -- Re: ASK ToolKit Clarifications
- To: [email protected] (Lucky Green)
- Subject: Re: p.s. -- Re: ASK ToolKit Clarifications
- From: Eric Murray <[email protected]>
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 09:54:06 -0700 (PDT)
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- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Lucky Green" at Aug 29, 97 09:12:23 am
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Lucky Green writes:
>
> At 07:50 AM 8/29/97 -0600, Myron Lewis wrote:
> >Myron Lewis wrote:
> >> I know that the claims we make for the ASK ToolKit(TM) sound a little too
> >> good to be true. In fact, someone I have been talking to for a while about
> >> other subjects and who I thought respected my views told me that "If it
> >> sounds too good to be true, it probably is-- too good to be true. "
> >
> >I forgot to mention...it can also be used to break PGP encryption.
>
> When making such strong claims, it would behoove the author to provide an
> example.
Check the headers. The one you're replying to was a forgery.
> Until such time, the ASK toolkit will be justly regarded as snakeoil.
>From the description, it sounds like a fancy API for a PRNG.
Not snakeoil, but not all that useful either.
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Eric Murray Chief Security Scientist N*Able Technologies www.nabletech.com
(email: ericm at lne.com or nabletech.com) PGP keyid:E03F65E5