Re: Tristrata - worth another look?

Sunder (sunder@brainlink.com)
Thu, 01 Apr 1999 11:29:35 -0500

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Bruce Schneier wrote:
>
> At 11:49 PM 3/31/99 -0800, Alex Alten wrote:
> >
> >As a founding employee of TriStrata I want to apologize to the
> >crypto community for that "unbreakable" crap. As far as I can tell
> >none of us here ever made that statement, but somehow we got tarred
> >with it. If you handle the fundamentals correctly, a Vernam cipher
> >is a useful tool in the crypto bag, with its good and bad attributes.
> >RC4 is an example of one type. RKS is just another type.
>
> This explains how the "unbreakable" crap got into your literature. You
> confuse stream ciphers with Vernam ciphers. RC4 is an OFB stream
> cipher. It is not a Vernam cipher.
>
> I think you need to try again.

Bruce, you're much too kind. IMHO, I think they need to quit trying to make
crypto and open up a McDonald's. At least then their technical skills will be
appropriately matched to their business goals.

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