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Bill Frantz (frantz@netcom.com)
Thu, 18 Jun 1998 19:30:39 -0800
I'd like to see the color of their money before burning too much time. An
interest bearing escrow account would be just fine.
At 12:33 PM -0800 6/18/98, Bruce Schneier wrote:
>Get a copy and let's reverse-engineer the algorithm. It'll be fun; we can
>give
>the money to EPIC or something.
>
>At 09:34 AM 6/18/98 -0400, 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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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:18:42 ADT