It's also referenced on Slashdot.
I tried to get somebody from Tristrata to talk to a
Cypherpunks meeting last summer, but timing didn't work out.
Little did I know what was going on under the surface :-)
At 10:17 PM 04/09/2000 -0400, Richard Stiennon wrote:
>*That* was entertaining reading. Articles like that are always more
>interesting if you know the players. I remember being in one of
>the first groups to go to the "Tristrata Academy" to get educated. The
>training was pretty high level and did not go deep enough into the guts of
the
>algorithms for us to judge their validity. Dr. Atalla was introduced as
>a multi-billionaire (not just $20 million as the article reveals).
>I remember thinking "I am not expert enough to poke holes in this, but I
>*do* know the folks on the crypto lists are going to eat these guys for
lunch!" :-)
>"Perry E. Metzger" wrote:
>
>> Some of you may remember a certain pseudo-OTP snake oil vendor called
>> TriStrata. This article in Fortune tells the story of their rise and
>> fall...
>>
>> http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/2000/04/17/boo.html
Thanks!
Bill
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