Hi Folks,
My last comment on this. I've stated my own personal opinion and
anyone is free to disagree.
On Sep 13, 2007, at 9:33 AM, Ali, Saqib wrote:
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.
I don't know if a product has to meet m of n criteria as stated in
<http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/snake-oil-faq.html>, but,
IMO, IronKey meets the following criteria: Technobabble, Experienced
Security Experts, "Military Grade" and to a certain extend
Unbreakability (normally applied to software, but IronKey claims the
epoxy prevents "criminals from getting to the internal hardware
components").
Respectfully,
Aram Perez
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