In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Willi
am Knowles writes:
>Snakeoil?
>
>[Smells like it. --Perry]
>
>http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/finance/2000/1110/fin10.htm
>
I don't know if it's really snake-oil -- it's possible, of course, that
they've developed a new, useful encryption algorithm, though of course
the odds are against that -- but no matter how good the algorithm is,
it's not "unhackable". Leaving aside the distinction between
cryptanalysis and hacking (and it's a huge one!), most security
problems are due to buggy code and/or bad systems administration. The
best encryption in the world can't stop buffer overflows, to give just
one example.
--Steve Bellovin
