[3076] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Tristrata?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marcus J. Ranum)
Sun Jul 26 14:29:05 1998
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 19:35:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr@clark.net>
To: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <199807241842.LAA15924@joseph.cs.berkeley.edu>
Anyone care to comment on an apparent snake-oil encryption
scheme being plugged by Tristrata? (www.tristrata.com)
The claims are the usual "one time pad" with automatic
"key management" (uh-huh) -- it sounds to me like a
hardware autokey that's seeded by something they are
calling a "seal" Is this the same kinda crap that
the Assymmetrix(sic) clowns were pushing 2 years ago
or have they come up with some new kind of brain damage.
They're actually marketing this stuff as an OTP and
have actually gotten a few industry analysts excited
about it (which is how I heard about it)
Anyone care to guess what this thing is?
mjr.
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