"Internet.Privacy.Guaranteed (IPG)" writes:
CRE Transforms, trademark IPG, are the only acknowledged unbreakable method of so transforming digitized information. There are no passwords, encryption keys, or anything like that to conjure up, remember, and perhaps forget.
Neat trick, unless they're using biometrics, which doesn't appear to be the case :} [...]
Don't Waste your time !
I think they just said it best themselves, but I'll comment a bit more.... [...]
Every informed expert of the technology will confirm, without reservation, that the IPG system is not breakable, as many already have!
All under NDA, I suppose. Note that they don't even name an "informed expert of the technology"; at least the POTP people gave some names. [...]
A fully operational integrated multi-user system costs approximately $140.00 per user, ready to load and go, with thousands, or millions of Nvelopes and Nvelopeners. IPG also offers full turnkey leases at $15.00 per user, per network, per month, which includes all software, upgrades, administration, and unlimited Nvelopes and Nvelopeners.
As a reference to its unbreakability, we refer you to an article by Paul Leyland on Internet at:
Clearly they (claim to) offer some sort of system using One Time Pads. Notice the price quote of "$15.00 per user, per network, per month" including "unlimited Nvelopes and Nvelopeners". I suspect this means that they're basically selling chunks of (pseudo- ?)random data for as much as $15/person each month ! I guess it's nice work if you can get it. At that price, one would hope that they're at least generating truly random bits from a hardware source. But their skimpy details on their proprietary processes don't inspire confidence....
For more information visit our Web Site at:
In case you didn't get enough hyperbole from the press release, they have extra helpings on the Web. This site has numerous pages containing precious little real information. I found a few tidbits in unlikely places, though: In http://www.netprivacy.com/ipg/mlmplan.html, which incidentally promises that they "can help you to make some big bucks through the PCX Nvelopes Multi - Level - Marketing Plan", it says:
With our manufacturing process it is relatively easy for us to manufacture a ready to go system, for 25 users, or for 2,500 users. All the user has to do is to prepare a DIR.LST, a Directory Listing of the users. We use that as the template and manufacture the system.
This is actually a little scary. According to one of their other web pages, the DIR.LST file is a numbered list of user names and email addresses. So it appears that a customer hands over a list of names and addresses, and IPG assigns a set of one-time pads (or something) to each pair of users on the list. (Holy combinatorial explosion.) And now IPG knows the one-time pads that will be used between any pair of email addresses on the list it has ! The EES is starting to look attractive by comparison.
It becomes a load and go installation at each of the user sites.
Gee, why are we all so worried about key management ? It's just a load and go installation at each of the user sites ! ;)
We will even prepare, or help prepare, the DIR.LST for users.
While we have the software and manufacturing facility to do that quickly, it is not easily transportable, to say the least, and certain aspects of it, we consider highly proprietary.
"not easily transportable, to say the least" ??? Any ideas to what this might refer ? OK, I saved (IMHO) the best for last. I suppose this could be taken as a claim about their proprietary, immobile RNG methods: (from http://www.netprivacy.com/ipg/comp.html)
How do we Achieve such High Standards? First Class Quality Control!
We achieve unusually high standards of excellence because of the manufacturing process. Over 30%, sometimes as high as 50% or more of our Nvelopes, Nvelopeners, are discarded because they cannot meet our rigid standards. Also our Nvelopes and Nvelopeners are subjected to a battery of performance tests to insure that when used, they will meet the high standards that you would expect.
<sigh> It's a jungle out there.... -Lewis "You're always disappointed, nothing seems to keep you high -- drive your bargains, push your papers, win your medals, fuck your strangers; don't it leave you on the empty side ?" (Joni Mitchell, 1972)