On Sun, 24 Nov 1996, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
Alan Olsen <alan@ctrl-alt-del.com> babbles:
At 04:00 AM 11/24/96 -0500, Black Unicorn wrote:
On Sun, 24 Nov 1996 eli+@gs160.sp.cs.cmu.edu wrote:
Maybe this one's different from all of those. How valuable a secret would you like to wager on that? If IPG wants credibility, they should retain a respected cryptographer, or several, to attack their scheme.
"They" attempt this nearly daily by trying to taunt c'punks into evaluating the product for free.
Then someone should not do it for free. They should do it as a "data recovery tool", advertise widely, make a few bucks, and show what a piece of crap the IPG snakeoil is in the first place.
That is impossible, it is self evident that it cannot be done. There are some people who are trying to break it, but they will obviously find that is impossible.
Cracktools are starting to become a profitable business as more and more snakeoil products appear on the market. (Most are marketed to law enforcement, but that will probibly change...)
There is a buck or two to be made here.
There's probably more money to be made by blackmailing the snake-oil peddler (pay me so I don't release the cracktool for your crap) than by selling the cracktools themselves.
--- Give up, no one can break the IPG system. That is a fact, not an opinion, like some of the cypherpunks.
With kindest regards, Don Wood