This turned up on alt.anonymous. One would need a technical specification or a working model to be sure, but it sounds like home-grown snake oil to me. My guess is that a nineteenth-century cryptanalyst could crack this, and that the TLAs would have a field day. What do other people think?
Complete Fax Privacy Draws Closer
Individuals receiving faxes, be they of a business or personal nature, will soon be able to encrypt the contents and make them unreadable to people for whom the messages are not intended. The new fax encryption technology has been developed by the University of Rochester in New York. The encryption program would make all faxes unreadable to the naked eye. Only by placing a customized transparent plastic sheet over the message could it be made readable. Each individual, employee or manager would be issued with his own plastic sheet and encryption key ensuring messages are only read by those specified in the message itself. The encryption software would not slow the transmission and reception of fax messages and the cost of installing the system on to existing machines would be minimal. Such software would be indispensable to those whose activities require the utmost confidentiality or privacy. Nosy employees, rivals, those providing faxing services and anybody else who has, until now, had a birds eye view of your fax communications could be successfully abolished from the security equation. Though the software has yet to be refined into a marketable commodity, it is set to be introduced for public consumption in the very near future.
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