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Re: Permanent Privacy - Snake Oil or unbreakable encryption?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Victor Duchovni)
Mon Jul 7 16:35:34 2008
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 13:10:45 -0400
From: Victor Duchovni <Victor.Duchovni@morganstanley.com>
To: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
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On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 07:54:46AM -0700, Ali, Saqib wrote:
> "PermanentPrivacy announces the world's first practical data
> encryption system that is absolutely unbreakable. And is offering a
> $1,000,000 challenge to anyone who can crack it.
This reads like snake oil.
> http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/hackers-hell-privacy-compromised/
This reads like a pump'n'dump stock scam.
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