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Re: Permanent Privacy - Snake Oil or unbreakable encryption?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Squier)
Mon Jul 7 16:37:06 2008
Cc: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
From: Bill Squier <groo@old-ones.com>
To: "Ali, Saqib" <docbook.xml@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <addede3b0807070754l298ed113h2a750bcc94627b20@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 13:48:15 -0400
On Jul 7, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Ali, Saqib wrote:
> Quoting the Foxbusiness article:
>
> "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.
>
> Permanent Privacy (patent pending) has been verified by Peter
> Schweitzer, one of Harvard's top cryptanalysts, and for the inevitable
> cynics Permanent Privacy is offering $1,000,000 to anyone who can
> decipher a sample of ciphertext."
My favorite part of that web site is from their "How it Works" section:
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``For example, suppose that the plain text message is simply one 5-
letter word. At first glance, you would think that this must be easy
to break. But there are, let us say, about 100 printable characters on
a computer keyboard, so there are some 100x100x100x100x100 ways of
producing a 5-letter word.''
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So, let me get this straight. You appear to be using a one-time pad,
but you discard all output that the robotic hand you send me is unable
to type on my keyboard?
-wps
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