Re: SafE Mail Corporation

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                       SANDY SANDFORT
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C'punks,

At 05:21 PM 6/17/96 -0400, M.Wagoner (1) wrote:
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>We would like someone to be able or should I say try and 
>crack our encryption. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE.

>Our Web site is http://www.sfmc.com  Phone number is 
>1-800-252-9938.

So I pulled up the Web site to see what sort of reward they
offered to the successful cracker.  Under the heading 
"Attention `Hackers'" they said if you crack their 
unbreakable SafE Mail code, you get 5 free copies of ...
SafE Mail!  Oh, that's a really primo prize, broken 
software.  Duh.

Since cracking their encryption is IMPOSSIBLE, I suggest 
they make the stakes interesting--$100,000, or hell, a cool
million.  After all, it's unbreakable.  It's not like they
will have to pay up or anything.


 S a n d y

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On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Sandy Sandfort wrote:

	<< Somebody else wrote the first two lines >> 

> >We would like someone to be able or should I say try and 
> >crack our encryption. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE.

	With a 22 character public key
	One way hash function 
	50 Kb/second encryption  

> "Attention `Hackers'" they said if you crack their 
> unbreakable SafE Mail code, you get 5 free copies of ...

	I didn't get that far -- the above lines convinced
	me that it was hype.  
	
	Especially their errors about PGP --- if they can't quote
	their competition correctly, I can only assume that their own
	data about their program is equally misrepresented.  

> SafE Mail!  Oh, that's a really primo prize, broken 

	The free demo costs $40.00 for shipping and handling
	+ sales tax.   << Wish I could remember the exact wording
	of the statute that states what reasonable shipping and
	handling charges are -- I suspect this exceeds them. >> 

> Since cracking their encryption is IMPOSSIBLE, I suggest 
> they make the stakes interesting--$100,000, or hell, a cool
> million.  After all, it's unbreakable.  It's not like they

	An insurance policy from Lloyds of London will 
	probably cost them less than that, and will pay out
	more than that , when they do pay it out.

        xan

        jonathon
        grafolog@netcom.com