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Re: Azalea Software/Carrick Online Server?????
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Wed Mar 3 14:55:22 1999
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 18:45:39 +0000
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: Matt Crawford <crawdad@fnal.gov>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
Matt Crawford wrote:
>
> > Note that it says that the encrypted file can then be sent
> > overseas. Nothing about the software. Ciphertext has never been export
> > restricted.
>
> And they don't address the problem of getting the "secret" (ha!) key
> from the sender to the recipient.
Surely you do that by any one of the zillion known methods? (PGP,
S/MIME, SSL, blah, blah).
Getting an encrypted message from A to B has never been a feat. The
trick is getting the software that lets you do it from A to B.
So, it ain't snake-oil, its just completely pointless in that it solves
a problem that doesn't exist! Which, I suppose, means it is snake-oil.
Cheers,
Ben.
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