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Re: A gauntlet thrown down by PC-Magic?
Alex Woolfson wrote:
| Just FYI here is the response I got from PC-Magic.
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Scott Chaney <[email protected]>
| To: Alex Woolfson <[email protected]>
| Date: Monday, December 15, 1997 4:02 PM
| Subject: Re: Encrypted Magic Folders
| >Thanks for the feedback. We are considering an established standard.
| >
| >BTW, for all the "crap" we get from supposed crypto experts no one has
| >come close to breaking our method. It does make for humorous reading
| >tho.
| Anyone care to take him up on his challenge? Please say yes. :-)
No.
We need to educate the public that this is not an acceptable
answer, not provide free cryptanalysis to every company that comes
along.
It took 3 years to break knapsack. The week before it
happened, no one had come close. That was not a good reason to be
using it.
Adam
--
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume