Re: ADVERT: Secure communications

Peter S. May <psmay@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As admirable a notion as this is, we are talking about _the bad guys_
here. If your user is a terrorist, pedophile, or criminal against
humanity, I have my doubts that a little software license will stand in
the way of his mission. Still, I understand that this is primarily
symbolic--you can't be faulted.

He can indeed. Conditions like that prevent the software from being
Free Software (as defined by the FSF or Debian) or Open Source.

Of course, I could be wrong about any of these things. That's what's so
great about USENET--peer review. :-)

Anyway, it seems that Robin Carey posts these adverts approximately
monthly, and doesn't bother responding to comments on them. I responded
to an earlier one

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.crypt/msg/401bd358ad9f651e

having analysed both the advertisement and the actual code. I described
the algorithms used (which are very strange) and offered some
preliminary cryptanalysis.

Later on the penny dropped and I realised that this is none other than
mrsjunecarey, a snake-oil peddler of old.

-- [mdw]
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