A gauntlet thrown down by PC-Magic?

[Adam Shostack]

Alex Woolfson wrote:
| Just FYI here is the response I got from PC-Magic.
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Scott Chaney <scott at pc-magic.com>
| To: Alex Woolfson <abdiel at worldnet.att.net>
| Date: Monday, December 15, 1997 4:02 PM
| Subject: Re: Encrypted Magic Folders

| >Thanks for the feedback.  We are considering an established standard.
| >
| >BTW, for all the "crap" we get from supposed crypto experts no one has
| >come close to breaking our method.  It does make for humorous reading
| >tho.

| Anyone care to take him up on his challenge?  Please say yes.  :-)

	No.

	We need to educate the public that this is not an acceptable
answer, not provide free cryptanalysis to every company that comes
along.

	It took 3 years to break knapsack.  The week before it
happened, no one had come close.  That was not a good reason to be
using it.

Adam




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