Unfortunately, I was unable to test TriStrata's Web security services, since they were not complete in time for testing. According to the vendor, ActiveX controls will let Web clients and servers access the product's security services by the time the final version ships. During testing, I did verify TriStrata's claims of superior encryption performance using its file-encryption utility, but the lack of Web support prevented me from testing the proposed scalable, secure Web transactions. Any encryption textbook will tell you that the only way to properly break the Vernam cipher is to steal the original encryption key. This cipher is so secure that instead of trying to break one-time pad encryption, the espionage world continues to rely on spies to steal code books from the bad guys.
Decryption is as simple as unzipping the data with the equivalent pad of random data.
I verified the TriStrata product's speed in our labs, but did not attempt a detailed cryptanalysis. The holy grail of one-time pad encryption is that the random data must be truly random and you can never reuse it. If either of these rules is broken, your data might as well be protected by a secret decoder ring from a box of cereal. Each client may encrypt hundreds of terabytes over its lifetime, and random data can never be reused. In addition to the Vernam cipher's strength, an effective security system also must have some sort of key management and control system.