It's not snake oil (yet?), but the word unbreakable is lame. check out a preliminary paper on it... http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~shoup/papers/ Title A practical public key cryptosystem provably secure against adaptive chosen ciphertext attack Fade wrote:
Does anyone with access to the Financial Times know what the hell this snippet is talking about??
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ENCRYPTION BREAKTHROUGH ANNOUNCED TODAY August 24, 1998
According to the Financial Times a new "unbreakable" encryption technology, called the "Cramer-Shoup cryptosystem," will be annouced today by mathematicians from the International Federal Institute of Technology which supposedly will thwart even the most aggressive Internet hackers. They claim to have created the first "unbreakable protection" which would reportedly be a breakthrough that could ensure the security of electronic commerce. The Financial Times said, "The breakthrough comes amid growing anxiety about the vulnerability of Internet transactions since the discovery by researchers earlier this year of a new way to break through even the strongest encryption systems."
-- o Mordy Ovits o Programmer/Cryptographer o LockStar Inc. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/usr/local/bin/python from sys import*;from string import*;a=argv;[s,p,q]=filter(lambda x:x[:1]!= '-',a);d='-d'in a;e,n=atol(p,16),atol(q,16);l=(len(q)+1)/2;o,inb=l-d,l-1+d while s:s=stdin.read(inb);s and map(stdout.write,map(lambda i,b=pow(reduce( lambda x,y:(x<<8L)+y,map(ord,s)),e,n):chr(b>>8*i&255),range(o-1,-1,-1)))