IPG Algorith Broken!
Alan Olsen
alan at ctrl-alt-del.com
Sun Nov 24 12:18:48 PST 1996
At 04:00 AM 11/24/96 -0500, Black Unicorn wrote:
>On Sun, 24 Nov 1996 eli+ at gs160.sp.cs.cmu.edu wrote:
>
>> Maybe this one's different from all of those. How valuable a secret
>> would you like to wager on that? If IPG wants credibility, they should
>> retain a respected cryptographer, or several, to attack their scheme.
>
>"They" attempt this nearly daily by trying to taunt c'punks into
>evaluating the product for free.
Then someone should not do it for free. They should do it as a "data
recovery tool", advertise widely, make a few bucks, and show what a piece
of crap the IPG snakeoil is in the first place.
Cracktools are starting to become a profitable business as more and more
snakeoil products appear on the market. (Most are marketed to law
enforcement, but that will probibly change...)
There is a buck or two to be made here.
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