Re: "Unbreakable Crypto" announcement??

17 Dec 2003

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In <Pine.BSI.3.95.980824130502.222A-100000@mail1.i1.net>, on 08/24/98 
   at 01:08 PM, Fade <fade@mail1.i1.net> said:
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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
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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."
Well this marketing hype just reeks of snake-oil.

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