Re: $100,000 reward

attila (attila@primenet.com)
Thu, 18 Jun 1998 15:24:57 +0000 (GMT)

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        I really jumped in their shit about a year ago; they are
        arrogant and illiterate. at the time they claimed they had
        granted licenses to the 200 largest software companies, at get
        this hyperbole, $1,000,000.00 per YEAR!

        well, arrogance begets sarcasm, and sarcasm is a lot more fun
        than arrogance which wears thin... they started out imploring
        the cypherpunks list to set me straight!

        they became more absurd as time wore on!

        check the cypherpunks archives or DejaNews about a year ago
        to pick up the thread name which went around for a while.

        enjoy

                attila out!

On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Zachary Roger Amsden wrote:

> Anyone seen www.meganet.com? I tried to access meganet after seeing a
> Simpsons episode, and guess what there is one. They have some thing
> called
> VME (Virtual Matrix Encryption), and it is complete trash snake oil.
> They claim that they have an algorithm called DLA that will decrypt to
> garbage after it's expiration date. I'm sure you all know that is not
> possible unless they have a time machine and the ability to change
> fundamental properties of mathematics. They are offerring $100,000 to
> break their garbage encryption every month, but they ain't giving out
> code. And they give a new challenge every month (to avoid brute force,
> I would assume). The obscurity on this one looks pretty thick, but if
> they were a true secure system they wouldn't need it. I just thought it
> was time to blow the whistle. I hope this hasn't already been discussed
> to death.
>
> Zach Amsden
> amsden@andrew.cmu.edu
>

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