On Sun, 22 Jan 1995, Harry Bartholomew wrote:
Call Security / Voice Crypto FAQ Neil Johnson
This guy showed up in sci.crypt back in November of '94, with the "Call Security" program. It had some new unknown public-key algorithm in it that he had designed himself. He raved about the security of his program, and "Why wait for Voice PGP! Secure Voice is here now!". Just to show how secure his new algorithm was, he posted a challenge example, and asked for people to break it. Don Coppersmith posted the answer to the challenge the next morning. It took thirty lines of Scheme code and about a minute on his RS/6000. The only reason it took him so long to post it was that he saw the challenge at the start of work that day, and not when it was posted the night before. :-) Insert obligatory warning about snake-oil here. Michael -- Michael Handler <grendel@netaxs.com> Civil Liberty Through Complex Mathematics Philadelphia, PA PGP Key ID FC031321 Print: 9B DB 9A B0 1B 0D 56 DA 61 6A 57 AD B2 4C 7B AF "Toi qui fais au proscrit ce regard calme et haut" -- Baudelaire * Skotoseme