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snake oil alert: "Polymorphic Encryption Method"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stefan Kelm)
Fri Dec 13 13:13:50 2002
From: "Stefan Kelm" <kelm@secorvo.de>
To: Bruce Schneier <schneier@counterpane.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:03:25 +0100
Reply-To: kelm@secorvo.de
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
In-reply-to: <4.2.2.20021114215802.015ff818@chaparraltree.com>
I'm not sure whether or not this is snake oil but it
definitely sounds like it:
"There exists NO method to crack the implemented polymorphic algorithm, a
high-performance machine code implementation of the Polymorphic
Encryption Method."
and
"256 bit encryption is regarded as practically and theoretically safe by
all serious crypto experts for the next hundred trillion years years or
more. Even computers having the size of the rocky mountains and computing
at the speed of light would take millions of years to crack the 256 bit
cipher which is implemented in the Professional Edition of BPP Disk."
Oh yes, they *do* have a product out there:
http://www.ciphers.de/products/bpp_disk.html
http://www.ciphers.de/products/polymorphic_cipher_theory.html
Cheers,
Stefan.
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