Hi
"The POUCH is a secure e-mail terminal program for IBM compatible computers. It uses a secret key phrase, advanced cryptographic techniques and several UNPUBLISHED ALGORITHMS to protect data in the body of e-mail messages. The key phrase, which can be up to 48 bytes long, is easily remembered and communicated. The POUCH is highly resistant to all known forms of cryptographic attack." [emphasis mine]
The INSTANT one see's the words "unpublished algorithms" appear in the context of cryptography one knows that snake oil is being purveyed. Resistant to all known forms of cryptographic attack?? Words fail me.
Making the algorithm proprietary does extremely little in making it resistant to attack. All of your statements regarding the security of "The Pouch" are worthless, for you have no data with which to substantiate your claims.
Absolutely.
If it is any good, there's no way for us to know. But your marketing of the product has every indication that it's nothing more than smoke and mirrors. To coin a phrase, "pseudocrypto." Please refrain from your bogus marketing techniques. This kind of stuff, by claiming to be "real cryptography" makes real cryptographers look bad.
Quite right. I'm not a "real cryptographer" myself, however I do feel that many people on this list subscribe to a similar set of values and are equally angered by people who sell snake oil to unsuspecting people. Later Mike