Samurai

Samurai was the first product developed by Babel and relates to email communications. It is a dynamic yet extremely user friendly methodology. Samurai uses a PIN having in excess of 10 19 making it practically impossible for a hacker to break the PIN for a particular user. Early on, Babel offered a $5,000.00 reward to anyone who could break the code, none could, in fact, we were accused of making up the code.

The PIN is not stored on the machine and is only within the head of the user; thereby making a lost unit worthless as all messages are stored in encrypted form.

Samurai utilizes “random” placement of “red herrings” within the message to heighten the difficulty that a hacker faces. In this fashion, an original message of 100 characters may be encrypted into a message having 110, 115, 117, 150, etc. characters; the hacker is then faced with the very real problem of discerning which are valid characters and which are not.

Samurai is extremely user friendly operating substantially at “ATM” levels; thereby only requiring the user to know their own PIN. In this manner, the “friction” of use by the user is minimized over any other comparable encryption; and, the overhead required is also minimized.

Samurai also is point-point encryption. That is, using the example of the cell phone, the messages are encrypted before leaving the sending cell phone and are only “in the open” when and if the receiving cell phone’s user decides to decrypt the message for the purpose of reading it. This is in stark contrast to the accepted use of an exchange server where the messages are exposed for periods during the transmission, thereby giving a hacker an opportunity to intercept the message.

Samurai has an extremely small foot print, being less than 15k, which permits the system to be incorporated into devices which otherwise would be impossible for competitive encryption methodologies.

Samurai is currently operating on Blackberry units, MS Mobile Phones and Outlook 2007 and above.