Fermented Pear Juice == Supercilious Pap There they go again, the imperium, or so they think, of cryptographic shamans are trying to bamboozle list readers into believing their warped cryptographic gimcrackery. They do not need Zadoc to anoint themselves the Solomons of the cryptographic world. They think that they are perfectly capable of doing it to themselves. Have they ever cracked a single meaningful cryptographic system? Have they ever implemented a significant cryptographic system? Of course, I am not speaking of Dr. Ron Rivest and other rightfully honored members, but rather of that ragtag group of cryptographic medicine men that think they have all the answers to all the questions, that is, the small cypherlunks subset of cypherpunks/coderpunks. Despite their trifling anomalous performances, they have Napoleonically crowned themselves as the aristocracy of cryptography. They are not "au fait" august, aureate practitioners, rather "au fond", they are narcistic harlequins, "fons et origino" of their own and claque homologated mirages of autistic cryptographic fantasies. Remember, how that self appointed College of Cryptographic Cardinals cannonaded me, and you, with a fusillade of self serving avowals such as, "we do not do it for money, we do it for the public good", "it is our duty to expose snake oil salesmen", "I feel a snake oil attack coming on", "it is a public service", "we owe it to the public, to protect them against charlatans," and on and on "ad nauseam," with their silly putty rodomontades. Now that their pusillanimity has been exposed for all to see clearly, they have apparently adopted the opportune, timorous motto of "sauve qui puet." They have proved themselves to be an alliance of fainaiguers that change their tunes when called to task. How many of them want to do it for the public good, now ? How many want to expose the snake oil salesman, now? How many of them want to protect the public, now? Not one. Show me, us, one of them that is not intellectually tremulous. They leaped into the contest when they sensed blood, but now they realize that it is their blood to be spilled, they shirk from their intellectual responsibilities. All of the Sir Galihads and Sir Lancelots of yesterday, have proved themselves to be Sir Coward Chickens now, as everyone can plainly discern. Most of them have chosen the exeunt course and are now hiding their heads in the sand, hoping that no one will take note of them. Where are all those chivalrous cryptographic knights now? I am sure that if asked, most would reply to the effect that they are "otherwise engaged," which parses to "nonpossumus," and only the most naive could fail to recognize that. What has become of their chivalry? Quite simply, the impersonate knights have become loathly benighted. The cypherlunks, riffraff, were quick to engage in jousting over OTP logomachy because they thought that all they had to do was beat their fingers on the keyboard and cite Shannon. The neologizing of the term "Software OTP," drove them into an uncontrolled frenzy of attacks. Alas, to do so, did not tax their notional mental facilities. On the other hand, when challenged to demonstrate their cryptanalytical skills, the cypherlunks became panic stricken and in mass hysteria took flight in frightened awe of the IPG algorithm. Their knightly bravado and braggadocio were hastily jettisoned in their wild flight away and superseded by their otiose nihility. That flock of cryptographic turkeys, a.k.a. cypherlunks, flew off to their clangorous roosts. There, though the more intelligent became quiescent as circumstances dictated, the court jesters started wildly flapping their wings and gobbling out their gobbledygook in order to becloud and confuse people about the proffer of the heretic. Those clowns were, and are, trying to create the illusion that their incondite cryptographic skills are irrefutable because they say it is so, and that makes it so. I think that those cypherlunk fabulists should adopt the apropos motto, "Talk very loudly and carry a tiny turkey feather duster." Their quixotic sallies into cryptanalytics are quintessential asininities. They are not subduing great crypto dragons, or giants, or even midgets, not even windmills; they, even more than Quixote, are merely fantasizing their efficaciousness. Their only significant cryptographic artifices are locked forever within the confines of their convoluted individual and collective minds. The cypherlunk's nympholeptic calliope of reciprocal "inbongis" is indicative proof of their total capitulation in the face of the impregnable IPG algorithm. Their clannish drum beating, high fiving, and back slapping of each other is reactionary declamatory histrionics. What a tragic waste. If there was only some way to channel and divert that energy atrophy into productive causes. For example, illimitable outrage against the dissonant alliance of Freeh and Saddam Hussein in trying to prevent their citizenry from having unbreakable encryption technologies. Gore and Rashanjanti are also advocating similar polices with respect to encryption restrictions. We must recognize that Gore, Reno, Freeh, Exon, and others similarly situated believe they are doing what is right. The fact though is, that by so doing they are becoming welcome allies of Hussein, Qadaffi, Rashanjanti, Castro and other human rights oppressors. That is a red flag if there was ever one. It raises the irreconcilable question of how can both groups in such an unseemly alliance be right. Obviously they cannot. Accordingly, that existential incongruence succinctly points out the dichotomous character of the question of whether or not unbreakable encryption technologies should be made openly available to everyone. In reality, the question though is not even close. While granted that there may be some criminals and terrorists who will pervert the use of encrypted communications, the number is extremely small because most such malefactors are far too ignorant and in too much of a hurry. If we spent a fraction of the saved money on openly bribing accomplices, far better emanations would be forthcoming. Furthermore, even if unbreakable encryption systems were allowed, law enforcement would still have an immense arsenal, existing and developing, of far more efficacious technological weapons available to them. Cryptanalytics has become the tiny tail that continues to wag the immense dog of intelligence gathering. A few powerful oligarchs are screaming "the sky is falling, the sky is falling," in order to protect their "Hillistic" empires. Wake up, the sky is not falling, and it is not going to fall anytime soon. Oh, those all powerful empire builders think they are doing what is proper and prudent for our country and its people, but they are absolutely wrong. The good far outweighs the bad on the balance scales. We desperately need unbreakable encryption technologies to aid and abet freedom fighters against tyranny around the world, and that is the reason that Hussein, Castro, Rashanjanti, and others of that persuasion are opposed to unbreakable encryption systems. We also need it in order to make it possible for individuals to protect their privacy in the onrushing information age. We also need it to so that businesses can protect their proprietary and other vital interests when essentially everything goes online. Unbreakable encryption will also insure for all people that governments do not wantonly intrude into their lives. To paraphrase FDR, "the only thing that we have to fear about unbreakable encryption systems, is the misplaced fear that it will do more harm than good." If the Internet and the Information Age are to achieve their potential to build us a better world, then unbreakable encryption technologies must be one of the irreplaceable cornerstones on which such a future can be built. We, who favor the advancement of the view that I am advocating, will not win by adhering to reactionary defensive tactics. We must go on the offensive. We need to bombard our Representatives and Senators with e-mail questioning why Castro, Freeh, Gore, Hussein, Qadaffi, Rashanjanti, Reno, Sung, Jr. and others that disagree about almost everything else are allies with respect to denying the public the use of unbreakable encryption technologies. Also, ask them, how are we ever going to be able to address the privacy issues in the information age without such encryption systems. Additionally, tell them about how we are handing over a multi-billion dollar market to foreign competitors because of the ITAR export ban, billions of dollars a year now and growing. We can win this affray because we are obviously in the right but we must become much more proactive by making everyone aware of all of the good things that will accrue to our human species by doing what we are advocating, That is the only real way to effectively combat those who mistakenly are taking the myopic view that we should not do it because it will help the criminals and terrorists. Guns and explosives help maleficence elements too, but we do not outlaw them because they serve other very useful purposes, and the same thing is obviously true with with respect to unbreakable encryption technologies. Back to the IPG system, we believe that you would like to know that commencing this date, IPG is advertising as follows: "In addition to posting the algorithm(s) at our web site: http://www.netprivacy.com IPG has also posted the algorithm(s) to a number of other sites, including Universities in the United States and Canada, as well as the famed Cypherpunks and Coderpunks lists. Since the IPG algorithm is impregnable, obviously no individual, or collection of individuals, from said Universities, the Cypherpunks, or the Coderpunks has been able to crack the system. Of course, this inability to do the impossible applies not only to the present but for all time, for all eternity." Of course what we are saying is obviously true, and we thought you might want to know. Thanks so very much, Don Wood