Now there's a business I'd like to get into.... reselling pseudo-random bit strings.... Ryan ---------- Previous Message ---------- To: cypherpunks cc: From: roy @ sendai.scytale.com (Roy M. Silvernail) @ smtp Date: 09/10/96 07:14:33 AM Subject: Re: ALPHACIPHER - An unbreakable encryption program. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In alt.security, survival@aa.net writes: [ attribution scrambled ]
True, but somehow I have a feeling that Alphacipher is not a one-time pad, and thus is breakable.
This assumption is not true. ALPHACIPHER is, indeed, based upon an OTP. We've solved all of the problems associated with pad creation, distribution, packaging and many other concerns that have previously limited the use of a cipher in this class.
Their web page alludes to a OTP-like operation where you have to purchase key "refills". It doesn't say where they store the escrowed copies of the key material.
Visit our net page at http://www.aa.net/cyber-survival-hq for more information, and read the reply in response to the unfounded attack by Curtin, posted above.
I recommend this page, if only for the great conspiracy theory about automated telephone line scanning. - -- Roy M. Silvernail [ ] roy@scytale.com PGP Public Key fingerprint = 31 86 EC B9 DB 76 A7 54 13 0B 6A 6B CC 09 18 B6 Key available from pubkey@scytale.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMjVcuRvikii9febJAQG1wQP+PPevphnwFiUnhwfHfi9eSLI/lJz++eaw X4Xo6Oa343rpnNoNw0D51aIRZbRmh9QRt1nhNbD3fPvNPjjvzxW58zgAtX5+kxfk b54pBzlVTEYcPBFXatfQuCjhhd95gjaMXYsKAx6rUNt02QFihGWqID48huN9nFOZ 0MlhN5IxIBk= =y4kc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----