15 January 1998

    Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:49:52 -0800 (PST)
    To: Filtered Cypherpunks List <cypherpunks@toad.com>
    From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
    Subject: Crypto Kong penetration.

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    Since release there have been a very large number of hits on
    the Kong documents, and mere 102 downloads of the program,
    and 74 downloads of the source code.

    The large number of source code downloads indicates that I am
    only reaching the crypto techie audience, that for the most
    part is already able to use PGP, not the non tech audience
    that Crypto Kong was designed for.

    On my web page I have documentation as to how business users
    can and should use this product.  (See the section "contracts
    and certificates" <http://www.jim.com/jamesd/Kong>

    I and Mather Cromer have prepared a release document targeted
    at business users  (See below)

    Does anyone have any suggestion of how to get the message in
    front of the target audience?

     (press release oriented towards businessmen follows:

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        Announcing Crypto Kong.

        Free digital signatures and encryption.

        <http://www.jim.com/jamesd/Kong/Kong.htm>.

        Many businessmen use a faxed signature for a contract, or for
        authority to act, or worse still, a shared password, as
        stockbrokers often do.  This is almost worthless.

        The signature on a fax can be, and often is, a mere bitmap,
        not genuinely scanned in from a signature written in ink on a
        paper document, but merely applied digitally to an image in
        computer memory.  If that bitmap was also applied to some
        other document sent to the same company, which it usually
        was, then the fax proves nothing.

        On the other hand, often one cannot wait for FedEx to deliver
        signed documents.   The answer is digital signatures and
        encryption. With digitally-signed electronic documents, you
        can send unforgeable signed documents instantaneously across
        the globe.

        Crypto Kong is easy to use and it uses the same identity
        model that as businesses today use for ordinary handwritten
        signatures,  unlike other products which impose their own
        different way of handling identity.

        Crypto Kong takes away the hassles of certificate management,
        public key authentication, and complicated operating
        instructions.  Anyone can immediately use it to sign
        documents, to compare signatures  or to encrypt sensitive
        messages.  Kong compares the signatures on documents, rather
        than comparing a signature against certificates.

        Crypto Kong software makes it easy to send or receive
        digitally signed documents or use top grade encryption to
        keep messages private.

        Crypto Kong provides support for contracts and the
        documentation that accompanies transactions.

        The Crypto Kong application and detailed documentation
        information is available as a free download from the Kong
        home page:

        Kong is compatible only with Windows 95 and Windows NT.
        Complete source code is also available for download from the
        home page.

        --digsig
             James A. Donald
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         SgQ8pgY/MeQpI9CfGR5kSsRdW61mSVYtqHkEMoMU
         47jSLQPPmYxhaKH9MyohUU9Q9i3bzVWjwey/s3Od4

        --digsig
             James A. Donald
         6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG
         gME+6HSq3N3G1iw88pJyVqcNc8dlMZhS2f+zUijA
         4IpLFuTI1zY7tEU4+gDAFM6uhgcWP9IyA/3guXt7j
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