[90475] in Cypherpunks
Re: cryptx spam - des-based program.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Wed Nov 19 11:20:05 1997
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
In-Reply-To: <347182CF.DA81779@systemics.com> from Ian Grigg at "Nov 18, 97 11:58:07 am"
To: iang@systemics.com (Ian Grigg)
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 10:31:54 -0500 (EST)
Cc: coolio@AIMARKET.COM, cypherpunks@toad.com, sales@crypt-x.com,
support@crypt-x.com, remove@ultra-mail.com, cryptx@ultra-mail.com,
"e$"@thumper.vmeng.com
Reply-To: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
As the maintainer of the free crypto libraries page
(www.homeport.org/~adam/crypto), I'm strongly tempted to refuse to add
any new library whose name starts with crypt.
Adam
Ian Grigg wrote:
| Bill Stewart said:
| > I got spammed by someone selling Cryptx, a DES-based encryption program.
|
| Sheez, not only spam, but perverting our good name! Cryptix is good
| strong stuff, they are simply hoping to confuse customers by dropping a
| vowel.
|
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| iang systemics.com
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| FP: 1189 4417 F202 5DBD 5DF3 4FCD 3685 FDDE on pgp.com
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