Re: cryptx spam - des-based program.
Bill Stewart said:
I got spammed by someone selling Cryptx, a DES-based encryption program.
Sheez, not only spam, but perverting our good name! Cryptix is good strong stuff, they are simply hoping to confuse customers by dropping a vowel. -- iang systemics.com FP: 1189 4417 F202 5DBD 5DF3 4FCD 3685 FDDE on pgp.com
As the maintainer of the free crypto libraries page (www.homeport.org/~adam/crypto), I'm strongly tempted to refuse to add any new library whose name starts with crypt. Adam Ian Grigg wrote: | Bill Stewart said: | > I got spammed by someone selling Cryptx, a DES-based encryption program. | | Sheez, not only spam, but perverting our good name! Cryptix is good | strong stuff, they are simply hoping to confuse customers by dropping a | vowel. | | -- | iang systemics.com | | FP: 1189 4417 F202 5DBD 5DF3 4FCD 3685 FDDE on pgp.com | -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume
Adam Shostack wrote:
As the maintainer of the free crypto libraries page (www.homeport.org/~adam/crypto), I'm strongly tempted to refuse to add any new library whose name starts with crypt.
I'd be interested to hear your reasons for this. Is it a comment on crowding or on the use of the generic? Looking at your page, I guess it's the overcrowding: Crypto++ CryptoLib CryptLib Cryptix. Try swapping the columns to intersperse the crypt-cartel. Of course, successful names and generic roots soon get copied. Back in the good old days, there were so many companies with words like micro and soft in them that it was confusing. These days, branding has moved away from techno-terms, probably as the industry becomes more mainstream. Crypto is still not mainstream, but if the USG silliness continues, it will become a more mature industry, and there will be less need to convince the managers that a crypto package is only good if it has the word crypto in. As the industry matures, the original, successful brands will survive, even though they might be inappropriate for a new entrant. For e.g., Microsoft and General Motors. -- iang systemics.com FP: 1189 4417 F202 5DBD 5DF3 4FCD 3685 FDDE on pgp.com
Ian Grigg wrote: | Adam Shostack wrote: | > | > As the maintainer of the free crypto libraries page | > (www.homeport.org/~adam/crypto), I'm strongly tempted to refuse to add | > any new library whose name starts with crypt. | | I'd be interested to hear your reasons for this. Is it a comment on | crowding or on the use of the generic? Looking at your page, I guess | it's the overcrowding: Crypto++ CryptoLib CryptLib Cryptix. Try | swapping the columns to intersperse the crypt-cartel. Its the overuse of the generic. Cryptolib and Cryptlib are different. Quick, who wrote which? I can't keep it straight. (I have web pages for that. :) I can distinguish out BSAFE and SSLeay. Crowding is only a small problem. If the names were better, it would not be an issue. The ordering on the page is the order I created them, and it will not be changed due to the inordinate effort required to change an HTML table. Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume
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Luc Saint-Elie <lse@saint-elie.com> writes:
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I think Lance Cottrell offers SSL connections for a fee (he takes payments in digicash also.) Check out www.cyberpass.net for details, I would think. Adam
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