Re: Challenge

["Kurt Seifried" <bugtraq () seifried org>]

We've struck Snakeoil boys (and gals)! To bad you can't bottle this stuff
and sell it.

Unless it's a one time pad (which it isn't) it's breakable (and even one
time pads are if the data source isn't optimal).

It is not under public scrutiny, just a rigged test (which for all we know
is a file containing data from /dev/urandom) that will probably not be
broken, which prooves nothing really (although the company will market it as
"unbreakable".

Judging from the number of bad grammatical errors on their website, the
general style of prose, and the bold tags in (which thankfully won't show
up):

"Virtual Matrix Encryption (VME) is our proprietary technology.  It's a
completely new approach to data encryption.  It has survived a battery of
rigorous tests and challenges.  Nobody has ever broken data encrypted with
VME."

What battery of rigorous tests and challenges (20+ years of public
scrutiny... no. public scrutiny at all... no. closed scrutiny by firms such
as RSA... doesn't say but I will bet no.). I won't be adding this to my
crypto book online anytime soon.

Kurt Seifried, kurt () seifried org
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