[107957] in Cypherpunks
1on1mail -- ad-supported crypto product
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Fri Jan 29 20:00:47 1999
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 01:47:39 +0100
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
My spies murmur of plans for an ad-supported (free) secure email product called
1on1mail. It certainly has the potential to take off -- SAFE-Audit, an
established online advertising company, is behind it.
I sent an email about it to someone at the company, asking whether it would be
open-source and non-export-weakened and viciously arguing that both answers
should be "yes."
I was expecting that it would be GAKed or 56-bit, but it apparently hails from
the cryptographically-free world (offshore somewhere) and thus can use
full-blast algos.
This guy was apparently into the business side, not the crypto; half because of
that and half due to my prolixity, I didn't find out whether it was
closed-source (meaning it could have a bad RNG or other leaky features) and
didn't get a very clear response on its trust scheme. I also forgot to ask
about interoperation with other products.
