more snake oil? [WAS: New uncrackable(?) encryption technique]

[David Howe]

at Friday, October 25, 2002 6:22 PM, bear <bear at sonic.net> was seen to
say:
> The implication is that they have a "hard problem" in their
> bioscience application, which they have recast as a cipher.
The temptation is to break it, *tell* them you have broken it (and offer
to break any messages they encrypt in it just to demonstrate) but dont'
tell them how you did it.
That would probably be even more fustrating for them than the problem
was :)