Re: Mile High Snakeoil

[Mutant Rob <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com>]

I've been thinking about this a while. Perhaps it's high time some of us
try to contact Consumer Reports or some of the local TV/Newspaper consumer
reporters and encourage then to do features on encryption software... might
even get them to talk about ITAR, GAK, and the Leahy Bill...


Andrew Loewenstern wrote:
> I was flipping through a copy of Spirit, the official magazine of Southwest
> Airlines, while on a flight to Vegas and found a thoroughly enjoyable
> advertisement for a crypto product.  Underlines and emphasis are theirs.[..]
>  Encryption through totally unbreakable Stonewall-Drawbridge is your
> ultimate security blanket.[..]
> DRAWBRIDGE applies mathematical algorithms to encrypt messages and uses a
> quasi-infinite, one-way transfer to ensure veracity.  Drawbridge uses an
> Infinite Venegere Key (IVK), combined with a one-way private key transfer  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> which is impossible to break, except by chance, once in a million years.

Hahahaha. *cough*