Today Zimmermann is a fellow at the Stanford Law School Center For Internet and Society, and focuses on Zfone, an encryptionscheme for VoIP phone calls.
Its password encryptionscheme, dubbed WEP for "wired equivalent privacy, " was nothing of the sort, and software to crack these passwords has been available for more than a year.
Add to this blunder the very real questions that have been raised (by Forbes staffer Andy Greenberg in these pages) about flaws in the Javascript-based encryptionscheme that MEGA is using.
Starting October 2006 the US will issue all new passports using the same ISO 14443 RFID tag and Basic Access Control encryptionscheme employed by the Dutch e-passports (and others) and adopted by the ICAO as global standards.
It sought to encrypt data traffic between the laptop and the access point, but did so in a way that was later found to be so inadequate that someone with relatively little technical knowledge could break the encryptionscheme and eavesdrop on traffic.