Complaint Review: Asier Technology Corporation - Plano Texas

I am appalled with Tom's anonymous attack on Asier Technology. I have worked with this company since its beginning and cannot believe how inaccurate and unfair Tom's investigative reporting is. I have always found the Asier people to be honest and sincere. They are competent folks who have developed some clever encryption designs and secure applications. They use proprietary encryption when there are high demands for low latency and/or low overhead. Otherwise they use standard encryption when it is suitable. I use AsierDC and it is an excellent end-to-end secure email application that uses AES as the encryption engine. They have completed their contracts with excellent results and received many cudos from their customers and their claims about proprietary encryption are based on independent assessments by credible cryptanalysts. Tom, your attacks on Asier, as unfounded as they are, will damage their name. Your industry insiders have misled you or perhaps they have an agenda of their own? You have never bothered to contact Asier. Good investigative reporting demands this. Please do so by contacting one of the principles or you can reach me at the number below. Tuck McAtee

To start out with I'm not sure how Tom in Dallas has been ripped off since Asier typically deals with government agencies in its business, and he never claims specific harm in his rant. He got virtually everything wrong. The facts stated below can be checked in the public record by anyone with a web browser. Asier has never claimed to have unbreakable encryption. It is, however, very strong. The matter with Mr. Pfeil (a minority investor) was settled by repaying his business loans early. (very sinister) Mathematically Asier's approach to encryption is more similar to a rotor-based machine than it is to a tablet, linear shifter or bit flipper. Tom, see the work of William Friedman. Between 2002 and 2006, Asier was awarded 7 research and development contracts with various agencies within the U. S. government. This is verifiable on various web sites, see links at bottom. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) 1. Authentication for Agent-Based Systems. Date of Award: 10 January 2005. Contract Number: W9113M-05-C-0074. 2. Integrated Data Compression and Security Algorithms Date of Award: Phase I - 17 December 2002. Contract Number: Phase I - DASG60-03-P-0062. 3. Integrated Data Compression and Security Algorithms Date of Award: Phase II - 1 April 2004. Contract Number: Phase II - W9113M-04-C-0031. Office of Naval research (ONR) 4. Multilevel security for Collaboration Tools. Date of Award: 25 June 2003. Contract Number: N00014-03-M-0334. Department of Homeland Security Advance Research Projects Administration (HS-ARPA) 5. Advanced Secure, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and Related Distributed Control Systems. Date of Award: Phase I - 1 April 2004 Contract Number: Phase I - NBCHC040097. 6. Advanced Secure, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and Related Distributed Control Systems. Date of Award: Phase II - 8 April 2005. Contract Number: Phase II - NBCHC050042. Office of the Secretary of Defense / Air Force research Labs OSD/AFRL 7. New Approaches to Sharing Data Across Multiple Security Domains. Date of Award: 28 April 2006. Contract Number: FA8750-06-C-0161. Asier already holds a number of US and foreign patents. These can be seen by anyone who searches the name Asier , Kevin Henson or Eric Smith on the USPTO web site. (www.uspto.gov) 7,016,497 - Data decryption system 7,016,493 - Key matrix system 7,003,108 - Data encryption methodology 6,996,234 - Data decryption methodology 6,950,518 - Data encryption system Asier also has foreign patents related to the above. Asier also has the following additional US patents pending for review that have published: 20040120521 - Method and system for data encryption and decryption 20040059945 - Method and system for internet data encryption and decryption 20030014671 - Method, system and process for data encryption and transmission Asier's encryption has not been broken under laboratory conditions. It was in fact called the strongest commercial crypto system ever tested by the independent researchers (ISSI) contracted by Lockheed Martin. Finally we arrive at Chameleon. It is a truly remarkable invention in that its combination -- its product, so to speak -- of virtues, with respect to those two issues of cryptographic quality and of useful niche, place it on a level astonishingly higher than I have ever before encountered in an assessment of a novel cryptographic logic. It is unquestionably useful and it is confidence-inspiringly good. Peter Schweitzer* *Peter Schweitzer was on the committee that originally worked on DES if anyone would spot a DES rip-off it would be him. All Asier applications use modular encryption. Digital Courier, Invisible Web, ACES etc. can use Asier-specific encryption such as Chameleon or Asier 40s, or AES 256 in its full NIST 140 form. This modular approach allows users to choose between standards-based encryption for regulatory compliance or advanced encryption for better performance. Asier have developed several algorithms over the years with various key sizes. Asier 40/S uses 40,960 bits in its symmetric encryption process. Chameleon can be scaled to use key seeds as small as 128bits, (to grow a larger internal key) or full keys that are 8,192 bits. A more common practice would be to use either a 256, or 512 bit seed to exchange and grow the full key internally. Asier Digital Courier (AsierDC) had a memory leak as of Nov 2006 when it was in BETA release. (Tom finally gets one right here ) Every windows application has memory leaks in its beta phase, many of them are caused by the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) upon which all programmers depend. Outlook, Hush-Mail, PGP, and Thunderbird all have had memory leeks in their release versions. AsierDC will be undergoing a completely new release in the next few days that will make it portable while simplifying installation even further. Asier's web page does not employ Trojans or spy ware. It does query the user's machine to see it they have an Invisible Web-enabled browser (ActiveX plug-in). Authorized users can see special content on the site that is otherwise invisible to other users. This is no different than going to YouTube and being queried to see if you have the right video codec to watch a movie. In summary I'm not sure how Tom feels he was ripped-off since he obviously knows very little about Asier. He is materially and provably incorrect on nearly every point. But don't ask me about Asier look at what other people say: http://www.mdatechnology.net/techsearch.asp?articleid=633 - sec6 http://www.engedi.net/partners_sa.htm http://www.mda.mil/mdalink/pdf/52_win05.pdf http://www.controlglobal.com/articles/2004/34.html?page=1 http://technews.acm.org/archives.cfm?fo=2005-05-may/may-23-2005.html http://masshightech.bizjournals.com/masshightech/stories/2002/02/04/story3.html Tom, if you have a shred of interest in facts or the truth, please contact me. Kevin Henson Chief Scientist Asier Technology Corporation

As a co-founder of Asier Technology, I'm shocked and dismayed by Tom from Dallas' attack on our company. I have just discovered his November 29, 2006 rant and feel obligated to respond. Since no one at Asier knows who Tom is, and we know him to not be a customer, we are at a loss as to what his motive is to attack us. As an alleged investigative reporter, I would think Tom from Dallas would actually conduct an investigation. First, any Google search on Asier Technology Croporation will reveal that we have had contracts with the Department of Homeland Security and Missile Defense Agency, and that at least some of our patents show up in a Google search. This is as true today as it was in Novermber when Tom from Dallas launched his attack. Furthermore, the truth is, we have had contracts with more than these agencies, and we have more patents and patent applications that any search of USPTO or WIPO would reveal. Second, investigative reporters who actualy earn a living a their craft typically get their facts straight. Tom from Dallas has missed several opportunities to do that, electing instead to use innuendo and slanderous remarks. Having an attorney for a CEO is uninteresting. There are too many examples in American business to bother with. Also, many companies have experienced lawsuits. In America's adversarial system, each side necessarily casts the opponent in the worst light possible. They typically settle and move on, which is what Asier did, equally uninteresting. His untelligible attacks on our technology are so materially incorrect, I'll let our CTO respond to them. The dismaying fact to date is that Tom from Dallas lacks the character to reveal himself. Tom from Dallas, if you'd like to base a story on facts, please contact me. You know where to reach me. You may find the truth instructive. Sincerely, Patrick Robinson President Asier Technology Corporation