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Re: meganet... for all your snake oil needs!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Gillogly)
Mon Mar 2 16:32:04 1998
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 98 13:17:59 PST
From: jim@mentat.com (Jim Gillogly)
To: cryptography@c2.net
Perry Metzger:
> >http://www.meganet.com/
> >
> >Anyone notice them before while on snake oil patrol?
Stephen Cobb:
> Over the last six months these folks have put out some truly amazing
> press releases, like how 50,000 people tried, but failed, to break
> their stuff, implying IBM and others were courting them, all sorts of
> things. I think I kept a few they were just so darned in-your-face.
I saw the one some months ago that said IBM was so impressed with VME
that they were recommending to NIST that it become the next AES. I was
taken aback by this effrontery, and sent the pointer on to IBM's public
relations office, with a rather disingenous question about whether the
report was correct and what led them to believe this Meganet/VME stuff
was worthwhile. They wrote back that they had not looked at it, and
didn't have anything more to say about it.
Jim Gillogly
