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Re: Internet Privacy Guaranteed ad (POTP Jr.)



> > [ IPG Sales ]
> >
> >... any of the N to the 256th power possibile clear/plain text
> >messages/files.

Excuse me?  256^N.

> [ Clay Olbon ]
> PROOF:
> 
> For any message length N > 1, 2^N < N^256.

Excuse me?  2^N is not O(N^k).

Cypherpunks used to be a place where I could fairly reliably see
high-SNR commentary from real cryptographers/number theorists.
Now we have the blind replying to the blind's obfuscatory
nonsense, and the useful posts take some effort to find.

> Try learning some simple math before you try and sell crypto.

Surely it's not a requirement these days.

Peter Monta   [email protected]
Qualcomm, Inc./Globalstar