Hi Richard!
1) is ruled completely out by the incredible incompetence.
No naming of the company or the people.
No naming of the actual algorithm, and no description except buzzwords.
The company's name, as I understand it, is VakPad. The people contractually involved are
1. Kevin( Grodin?
2. Paul Kramerson, whose email I provided
3. Ralph Abraham, a well-known and well-respected professor of mathematics.
4. Rich Person (sounds like a psuedonym, I know)
Kevin has been responsible for ALL funding currently achieved, largely by reaching out to his family members and contributing his own money.
Rich is an encryption start-up entrepeneur mostly responsible for securing investments. He has, in the past, secured funding for several encryption start-ups, all iterative projects using pre-existing technology. So far he
has caused the project nothing but grief, failing to secure funding, fundamentally failing to understand the technology no matter how many times
it is explained to him, and has started fights with every single other member involved. The last 7 months have been wasted trying to get him to negotiate down from 30% to 1% share in the company, despite his total lack of belief
in, and failure to contribute to the project. Kevin brought him on, and so
far the only investor that Rich has been even tangentially involved in acquiring was one of Kevin's cousins in Germany.
Paul is responsible for most of the business aspects, working to resolve the program into a its final form with Ralph, and getting over the death of his best friend of 20 years,which occurred roughly last year. Rich has been
wildly unsympathetic for the entirety of that timeperiod. Months have gone by where he refuses to look at his email for fear of how Rich's barrage of unwarranted insults would cause him to react, and how it would distract from the project's completion. He's also responsible for the key idea that allowed the algorithm to even work, and Rich (millionaire who never, ever spends his own money on projects he doesn't understand) simply refuses to believe the truth of that. Because Paul had been driving a taxi until about three years
ago when he finally decided to make his idea a reality.
Ralph Abraham is a long-time acquaintance of Paul, largely responsible for making his ideas into a program. His credentials among upper-level cryptographic experts are unquestionable.
My name is Christopher James Petrovic, and Paul has been living with me for
the past three months in order to stop wasting money living in motels, as he has been forced to do for the past two years. He cannot get an apartment, as
he has no credit history, and Rich has been too irrationally afraid of
getting scammed to save money by having the company rent an apartment for
him. There was also a brief moment where Paul bought a car in the hopes he could support the project through Ubering, but he found himself unable to
work three jobs at once without ruining all of them. Honestly just seems like he got a little scared and took a half-step backwards to a period of
stability.
Peer-review is difficult, as there are about three methods to prove the efficacy of the algorithm:
1) Publicly release it, destroying its viability as a product.
2) Patent or Trade Secrets, both of which require registering with an outside company fully capable of simply stealing the idea and discrediting the
nobodies involved.
3) Pay a reputable laboratory to test it endlessly. One round of tests has
been performed, but there's very limited money for more.
Obviously, the project faces challenges, but Rich has (for the fourth time) agreed to stop getting in the way.
Ostensibly.
After all of the investors threatened to sue.
My involvement in this is largely tangential, but earlier this week Paul
called me filth for suggesting that he try to buy flea medicine for his dog
(so that we would stop having fleas,) which neither of us can possibly afford to do. He's on his last $635, which I am responsible for handling because
every time Rich has tried to arrange a wire transfer it has failed three
times in a row. Every single time. So he was no longer permitted to handle the wallet. In about a month, Paul will be homeless and unable to continue
working.
I sure hope Rich isn't hamstringing the project to save face on his own history of total incompetence, as is rather popualr right now. Especially in an environment mostly frequented by one particularly secretive family.
Anyway, put simply, it is physically impossible to brute force this algorithm. Even if one spent all of eternity cracking it, and then tried to send the solution back in time, it would not work. One would never find the solution. It is 100% secure, and I encourage you to talk to Paul as he has the information not me. Though he did tell a few people the core idea behind the algorithm, when he became suspicious that Rich was about to steal the company from him, and I personally feel that it is machine-proof.
It is not an iterative encryption project, it's a vital, key technological resource for the privacy and freedom which currently NOBODY is enjoying.
Thanks!
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