NODE 8bae038fA gauntlet thrown down by PC-Magic?
"Alex Woolfson" <abdiel@worldnet.att.net>Tue, 16 Dec 1997 16:09:47 +0800
Hey guys
Just FYI here is the response I got from PC-Magic.
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Chaney <scott@pc-magic.com>
To: Alex Woolfson <abdiel@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Monday, December 15, 1997 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: Encrypted Magic Folders
>Thanks for the feedback. We are considering an established standard.
>
>BTW, for all the "crap" we get from supposed crypto experts no one has
>come close to breaking our method. It does make for humorous reading
>tho.
>
>Scott
>
>
Anyone care to take him up on his challenge? Please say yes. :-)
Alex
NODE 4d04f507Re: A gauntlet thrown down by PC-Magic?
Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>Tue, 16 Dec 1997 22:26:25 +0800
Alex Woolfson wrote:
| Just FYI here is the response I got from PC-Magic.
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Scott Chaney <scott@pc-magic.com>
| To: Alex Woolfson <abdiel@worldnet.att.net>
| Date: Monday, December 15, 1997 4:02 PM
| Subject: Re: Encrypted Magic Folders
| >Thanks for the feedback. We are considering an established standard.
| >
| >BTW, for all the "crap" we get from supposed crypto experts no one has
| >come close to breaking our method. It does make for humorous reading
| >tho.
| Anyone care to take him up on his challenge? Please say yes. :-)
No.
We need to educate the public that this is not an acceptable
answer, not provide free cryptanalysis to every company that comes
along.
It took 3 years to break knapsack. The week before it
happened, no one had come close. That was not a good reason to be
using it.
Adam
--
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume
NODE b76ce9b9Re: A gauntlet thrown down by PC-Magic?
Ray Arachelian <sunder@brainlink.com>Wed, 17 Dec 1997 02:51:47 +0800
On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Alex Woolfson wrote:
> Anyone care to take him up on his challenge? Please say yes. :-)
Give us source (or a good disassembler.) :)
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