TrustLeap: provably-secure, "forever unbreakable" security
rysiek
rysiek at hackerspace.pl
Fri Jan 9 12:45:15 PST 2015
Dnia wtorek, 6 stycznia 2015 19:46:20 Patrick Mylund Nielsen pisze:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 6:04 PM, 42 <42 at enigmabox.net> wrote:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > The CEO of TrustLeap contacted me recently to boast about his
> > "unbreakable" security, and that 'we' are doing everything wrong and
> > "all open source software is backdoored".
> >
> > Quotes from the website:
> > > TrustLeap can mathematically prove that it has "unbreakable
> > > encryption" against unlimited computing power, forever, and by-design.
> > >
> > > As a result, "modern" cryptography (all the algorithms used today,
> > > either standard or custom) is _provably unsafe_.
> >
> > http://twd-industries.com/faq.html#tab3
> >
> > What do you think about that?
> >
> > There is a challenge: http://twd-industries.com/challenge.html
> >
> > > This is a page for real experts in cryptography
> >
> > ...so I thought I'll share it with you guys.
>
> All that text and I still have no idea what this thing does. The exercise
> is pointless: I could give you some plaintext and blob of random garbage
> (or just use a one-time pad) and make all the same claims. And the
> customers listed on their Customers page are using their Remote Desktop
> product, not this.
>
> But all you really need to know is they're only offering $1,000 as a reward
> to people who break their
> provably-secure-everybody-else-is-an-idiot-yadda-yadda system. Maybe they
> should convince themselves that it's secure first.
stf, can you please post your snakeoil tell-tale signs? I think they might be
useful here. ;-)
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Pozdrawiam,
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak
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