Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!snorkelwacker!mintaka!ogicse!milton!mtv
From: mtv@milton.u.washington.edu (David Schanen)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Digital Signatures and Public Key Cryptography
Message-ID: <6941@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 31 Aug 90 08:40:51 GMT
References: <2998@mindlink.UUCP>
Organization: Independent Study of Art, Music, Video, Computing
Lines: 25


  This was sent to me by a friend.  If you are interested, drop me a line.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
	I have access to a very effective non-deterministic encryption
system in binary form for the IBM PC family of computers.  The source
code for this is avalible for $30 from Cryptext Corp.  As the author
of the algorithm is my boss and favorite drinking partner, I'm afraid
I'm not very partial to making off-site backups of the source.

	As background for you credentials freaks, the algorithm
was first discussed by Cryptext president Carl Nicolai at Crypto '82,
subject to peer review at M.I.T., and an earlier ("inferior" in Mr.
Nicolai's words) device had been examined by then Bell Labs researcher
and current NSA chief of cryptography Robbert Tappan Morris, Sr. who
remarked that it was "the best crypto device I've ever seen".
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

	Interesting eh?

	   -Dave

-- 

 Internet: mtv@milton.u.washington.edu  *  UUNET: ...uunet!uw-beaver!u!mtv