When Pretty Good Privacy Isn't Good Enough

st. augustine writes "Worried that the NSA already knows how to crack PGP? Someone calling themselves Hardened Criminal Software has a one-time pad package called HardEncrypt that could be the answer to your paranoia. The sci.crypt Snake Oil FAQ teaches us to beware of one-time pad claims, but it looks like Hardened Criminal has done their homework. No bogus bit-stream algorithms or pseudo-random number generators. And it's open-source, so everyone can bang on it and fix any problems. I'd try it myself, but I'm outside the US, and the Bernstein decision doesn't apply in New York. :-)"