On 13 Sep 2007 13:45:42 -0000, John Levine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I always understood snake oil crypto to refer to products that were of > no value to anyone, e.g., products that claim to have secret > unbreakable encryption, million bit keys, or "one time pads" produced > by PRNGs.
hear hear! I think in the zeal for criticism of the IronDrive, folks have expanded the definition of Snake Oil to include "All" security products. I don't like the "Military Grade AES Encryption" phrase that IronDrive uses on their website, cause that implies they know what Military is using. Maybe somebody should notify DoD that these IronDrive folks know what Military uses to encrypt info ;-) But other then that I don't see any Snake Oil Crypto like techno-babble used by IronDrive Marketing. saqib http://security-basics.blogspot.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
