Re: bodacion

[Carric Dooley <carric () com2usa com>]

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Is that using the supercalifragalistic algorithm? With the expialidocious
generator?? Nifty.

On 20 May 2002, David Klann wrote:

> > Dave,
> >
> > Have you performed a search-engine search for bodacion or for raki? I'm
> > curiously hopeful, but I'd be a little suspicious of this product. I
> > found no scholarly references to the published algorithms. Further, the
> > white paper at http://www.bodacion.com/docs/TheBodacionServer.pdf states
> > that the amount of randomness is increased using "a complex
> > explicit-inversive congruent generator..." The company then contradicts
> > itself (see http://www.bodacion.com/docs/PreventingWWWHacking.pdf,
> > section 3.3, p. 6) by stating, "The security provided by the bodacion is
> > increased by keeping the exact algorithm secret and dynamic across
> > versions of the server" ("The Bodacion Server", section 3.5, p. 9).
> >
> > It's no surprise that the prize money was not awarded. There's a good,
> > recent thread on sci.crypt. See also,
> > http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-9902.html#snakeoil .
> >
> > -dk
> >
> > On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 09:52, Dave Piscitello wrote:
> > > Has anyone had an opportunity to talk with or play with this
> > > embedded server? They claim it's unhackable and crashproof,
> > > built on what appears to be a proprietary OS but supporting
> > > web over IP, SSL, etc.
> > >
> > > Fairly big claims, I was curious what they've done to
> > > corroborate them?
> > >
> > > www.bodacion.com (no, I don't work or advise for them...)
> >
> >
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