[Cryptography] Ransomware: Newest viral marketing gimmick ?

[dan at geer.org]

 > The critics are right that there can be no certainty that the
 > ransomware operators will make good on their promise.  And there's
 > always the possibility a programming error or law enforcement
 > takedown will allow keys to be recovered without paying the fee,
 > as was the case last year with the CryptoLocker brand.

I was told on Tuesday that some one of the current ransomware
operations did, in fact, make a mistake and cannot, in fact,
do decryption as it failed to retain the needed key.

I have no way to check this.

--dan