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Misinformation: new crypto product
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PETER SCHWEITZER)
Mon Jul 21 12:12:14 2008
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: PETER SCHWEITZER <peter@infosecsys.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:28:41 -0400
A recent press release about a new cryptographic product, "Permanent
Privacy" (P.P.), mentioning my name, has led to a slew of
dramatically mistaken reports. Corrections: I have never had a
cryptography-related connection to Harvard. I had nothing to do with
the press release.
Concerning my alleged support for the claim that P.P. provides
"...the world's first practical data encryption system that is
absolutely unbreakable.":
Its "practical" versions are not "absolutely unbreakable", as I tried
hard to convince them. The only claim I ever supported was that if
the additive stream cipher that is one component of P.P. consists of
a properly managed 'One-Time-Pad', it (obviously) provides
unbreakable encryption.
Peter Schweitzer
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