ipgsales@cyberstation.net wrote:
Those of you who have had all of the materials will understand the foregoing. With the information provided heretofore, you can determine the effect on the other two systems. Also, those people will know my expressed fear of a premature announcement, such as that which has now been made, would have. This was the reason, that I resisted so strongly the release of the materials to the C'punks list though a few of you recommended that I do so. Perhaps we should have released everything? Who knows. However, in any case, that is water over the dam and IPG must go on from here. It is only another of the many mistakes that we will undoubtedly make along the way.
Having said that though, we must go back to our prior evaluation method, a strict confidential mode. However, I believe that we have added several very good additional people who can help to analyze the system.
English translation: We didn't want to release our algorithm because we were afraid somebody might find a weakness. Sure enough, somebody did. So I guess we're going to keep it a secret after all. Hey, kids, security through obscurity just doesn't work.