Fade <fade@mail1.i1.net> asked the Listocracy:
Does anyone with access to the Financial Times know what the hell this snippet is talking about??
ENCRYPTION BREAKTHROUGH ANNOUNCED TODAY August 24, 1998 <snip>
Having read the FT, WHG III <whgiii@openpgp.net> growled:
Well this marketing hype just reeks of snake-oil.
It may be rash to condemn or dismiss a cryptographic proposal just because corporate PR is unable to coherently explain the work. Cramer and Shoup are serious players, and they are presenting a paper on their work at Crypto98 today. The technical paper can be viewed at: <http://www.zurich.ibm.com/Technology/Security/publications/1998/CS.pdf> For more uninformative PR, see: <http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/980824/ibm_resear_1.html> IBM (Shoup's employer) offers a PR contact: Mike Ross, at IBM Research, e-mail: mikeross@almaden.ibm.com [Tel: 408/927-1283] Suerte, _Vin ----- Vin McLellan + The Privacy Guild + <vin@shore.net> 53 Nichols St., Chelsea, MA 02150 USA <617> 884-5548 -- <@><@> --