Dear IPG Sales (May I call you "I", or would that be too familiar?) 1) There is no such organization as "Cypherpunks". "Cypherpunks" is a mailing list, not an organization. Using the name of the mailing list as though it were an organization is anti-social. There is no one who has the authority to speak for "Cypherpunks" because there is no such beast. 2) I see no reason to "trade" with you folks whatsoever. Any honest company would simply publish the technical specifications of their work and allow independent evaluation of the quality of your algorithms. I don't know about other people, but from my point of view, no deals (Other people are free, of course, to come to an arrangement with you). Submit your algorithms for peer review honestly or find yourself ridiculed anyway. I will not even look at a non-public specification. 3) I warn you -- if you sell a system that you know to be potentially defective, and fail to take measures to evaluate its security using common industry standards (i.e. open peer review) you can and will be liable to any number of legal actions, all of which you will richly deserve, and no number of silly disclaimers on your packaging will save you. I'll happily give expert testimony for the plaintiffs and or prosecution, depending on whether it goes criminal.
"He who laces himself into the straight jacket of what he knows and understands, imprisions his mind" - Willian Friedman memoirs - spoken to JVN, and Norbert Weiner, of MIT, at Princeton -
They laughed at Fulton, but they also laughed at Bozo the clown. All indications are that you are in the latter, not the former set. Perry