More snake oil: ENIGMA

Seen on usenet. I'm not currently subscibing to the list, so I hope it's
not old news.

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Can You KEEP a SECRET?

Doctor? Lawyer? Accountant? Executive? Or even Politician? -- you know
there is some information your clients don't want to fall into public
hands. Can you
keep a secret? They want you to. Let's face it, you want to keep some
things a secret as much as they do!

Now you can. Now there is an unbreakable version of ENIGMA which is so
easy to use that a child can send messages the CIA can't break.

Perhaps you remember the original version of ENIGMA used so successfully
by the Germans during World War II. Hundreds of cryptologists worked for
thousands of
hours to unscramble the secret orders being flashed openly over the air
waves by the Germans. In the end, allies cracked the code only by
stealing one of the machines.

With ULTRA ENIGMA 2.0 stealing the machine won't do your enemies any
good at all. First, the New ENIGMA is a thousand times more complex. Yet
it only takes a matter of minutes for you to lock up whole directories
of your secret files securely. Then your secrets are safe. They are
secure, Now and Forever.

Your secrets are safe because there is no place for cryptologists to
begin, no way they can tell which part of the code is part of the secret
and which part is garbage, no way of telling if the file is long, or
short, or a drawing, or a picture, and it might even be in a foreign
language for all they know. Yes, the new ENIGMA really can encode
drawings, pictures, X-Rays and absolutely anything else you can put into
a computer. Can You keep a Secret? With ENIGMA you can... ENIGMA is so
secure that not even the producers can crack your secrets open.

ENIGMA is seamless. Nobody can crack the codes you set but you. Now
that's a Secret you can tell everybody! Your clients will be glad to
hear it, and you'll
sleep better knowing it is true.

Let us spill out the Secret Details of ENIGMA for you to examine. Take
just a moment to glance through our pages. We'll show you how it works,
and explain why it works. Then,
especially for Governments and other high risk situations,, we reveal
why even the weak link, (knowing the encoder) can be eliminated with a
Fortune Cookie blindly selected from a randomly available jar with
thousands of cookies shuffled back and forth at the company. Think about
it;, if YOU don't pick the keys, how can ANYONE guess which keys You
Pick? And we are sorry, but NO... the company won't have any idea which
keys you pick either..! -- Think of it this way, some things are best
kept a secret between you and you. As an added bonus, we'll also show
you some other professional ways you can guard your secrets.
http://www.enigma-co.com will bring you to our front page.
                            ENIGMA
                       5525 McMurtrey Drive
                North Little Rock, AR 72218-5248

                          For Support use these numbers
                            http://www.enigma-co.com
                      Phone (501)758-8040 8am-10pm CST
                              Fax (501) 758-8016

             All our sales are maintained by WorldWide Sales Depot
                    So,,, For Foreign Dealership information,
                  Sales and Orders .... use these special numbers

                               104344.2000@compuserve.com
                   Fone: (401) 945-4262 ** FAX: (501) 945-4203

Sales literature, web page design and layout (c) copyright 1996 by
WorldWide Sales Depot
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Steven Weller  stevenw@best.com

  "There was really no reason why we did anything the way we did. But, of
course, there was a reason why we did things for no reason at all".
                                                         -- Michael Palin

Other than the fact it is probably from a front for one of Dan 
    Lassiters' Little Rock companies, now owned by Alltel, it's worth
    a read. large scale enigma encoding is not bullet proof, but it can
    make your life miserable.  I did not take the time to calculate the
    permutations...  
        I wonder if anyone told them the data recovery teams can pull
    multiple layers of data off a disc after it has been stripped?
        FYR, the explanatory text from their front page is below.

--
    Cyberspace and Information are Freedom!  
        FUCK your WIPO, too. 
                -attila

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<CENTER><B>Welcome to Enigma & Co.!</B></CENTER><BR>

The following text contains various terms that you may not be familiar with.
Please refer to the Glossary section for a description of those terms, or
feel free to call us for more detailed information on how we can help you with
your data security needs.<BR>

<BR>

A data protection system for businesses and individuals, the Enigma & Co.
related products offers security with the means to 
create personalized encryption schemes in an infinite variety.  In 
addition, the versions include a complete package of security 
management tools to enable it to be used in a business or office environment 
under the oversight of authorized administrators. It also provides routines 
to handle binary encryption and decryption of both text and non text files 
as well as all the capabilities needed to accommodate BBS, E-Mail and Internet 
communications.
It is for these reasons plus many more which you will discover in using the
software why our users think it is the finest cryptographic software ever
produced.<BR><BR>
In addition, unlike public key and other mathmatical cryptographic programs, there
is nothing in the messages and files you encrypt that aids in the deciphering of
your data.  If you encrypt twenty bytes, then the encrypted file is twenty bytes,
containing no clue on how to decipher it.<BR><BR>

<B><CENTER> About Enigma & Co.'s Cryptography Products</B></CENTER><BR>

Here's some insight into the enormous power and security offered by Enigma &
Company's products.  You do not need to know all the in's and out's of these
features to use it effectively.  We've designed our systems to be extremely
easy to use.  Some of the main features are:<BR><BR>

<B>Wheels:</B><BR> Our Enigma's can use from three up to eight wheels at a 
time.  A Wheel is a scrambled dataset of characters that is used by the Enigma
systems that your computer randomly creates.  There are
no limit to the number of WheelSets (datasets of wheels) that you can create.
<BR><BR>
<B>Usable Characters:</B><BR> Our Enigma uses 83 characters on its text wheels and 256 on
its binary wheels. This gives the Enigma user more than six billion more 
starting
text wheel configurations ("shifts") to choose from, each one of which
will produce an entirely different encryption.  The use of all eight
binary wheels, of course, exceeds this number tremendously. <BR><BR>

<B>Indicator Word:</B><BR> To make the enciphered message even more difficult
to break, our software provides another feature which allows the sender
to enter a word or a simple phrase that has the effect of adding a
virtual ninth wheel to the text enciphering combination.<BR><BR>

<B>Multiple Cryptions:</B><BR> Probably one of the best features of the Enigma
products, you have the means of storing your personalized WheelSets and your Schemes
and then do cryptions in a multiple fashion, using different
WheelSets, different Schemes, and if in text mode, different Indicator
words.  You can also Cross Crypt, that is encrypting in text (83
character) and then in binary (256 characters). <BR><BR>

<B>Parameters:</B><BR>We created even more power over the cryptive process by adding parameters 
for both Text and Binary which allow the user to define the direction the 
wheel in each slot will rotate, and the number of turns before it triggers 
the next wheel to rotate in its predetermined direction.  Predefined WheelSets 
and Schemes are also included as well as data files to save and restore 
parameter settings.
<BR><BR>

<B>Passes:</B><BR> The Enigma systems allow
the passing each character back and forth as many as 99 times, a device 
which effectively turns an eight wheel encryption to a 792 wheel encryption or
a 891 wheel encryption with an Indicator Word.
<BR><BR>

<B>Personal Schemes:</B><BR> Added to the above, the Enigma user is not confined
to the wheel "wirings" that come with this software. He or she is
encouraged to create personalized wheels and schemes, setups that can
be tailored for groups of correspondents or individuals. And to avoid
the possibility of using the wrong scheme with the wrong person, Enigma
allows each special setup to be given a separate file name for later
recall.<BR><BR>

<B>Slots and Shifts:</B><BR> Each user has the ability of placing different
wheels into the slots in whatever order they prefer and then shifting
them prior to the cryption process.  The act of shifting can in effect
create a totally different wheel from the original positions of that
wheel.<BR><BR>

<B>Shift Ratios:</B><BR> To further complicate the encryption process you can
specify the number of shifts the wheels will rotate when it is triggered instead
of only one rotation.<BR><BR>
 
<B>System Files:</B>All your system files can be removed (cannot be recovered),
transferred and restored either all at once or individually.  The system files
consist of WheelSets, Schemes, Parameters and Code Book data. 
<BR><BR>

<CENTER><B> About Enigma & Company's Ultra Enigma</B></CENTER><BR>

The Ultra Enigma system evolved by the addition of a ten numeric input 'key' 
in the parameter screen.  These ten sets of numbers are used to 'shotgun' the original
message anywhere between eight and five hundred plus times its size, depending
on the values in those ten 'key' inputs.  Ultra hides your data in a sea of
data, thus making decoding by brute force an absolute nightmare.
<BR><BR>

As our system evolved, three modes of cryption were developed and all three
are present in Ultra Enigma and can be utilized as part of the operating system. 
Styles 1 and 2 are one-to-one processing (files are not expanded).<BR><BR>

In addition, all sensitive data files used by Ultra Enigma can be Transferred,
Restored and Killed (unrecovering them are impossible) leaving your computer
useless to theft and misuse.<BR><BR>
 
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