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Here is a link to the DMCA notice, in case anyone cares. Its not just a DMCA notice, it contains claims against slander and defamation too.

http://www.pdf-archive.com/2013/04/20/notice130419/

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“The statement is patently false. Sid implies that what was perceived from a public demo is CipherCloud's product offering.”

http://www.pdf-archive.com/2013/04/20/notice130419/preview/p...

»CipherCloud's product is NOT deterministic.« No, really, it is not. They say it three times. Who has not at least once dreamed of having your data processed by a non-deterministic system?

I think they are claiming that they are not using deterministic encrpytion[1], which can be used to allow searches of encrypted data, not that their software is "non-deterministic".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic_encryption

EDIT: Or maybe you know that and I missed the joke.

I know the difference between probabilistic and deterministic encryption but I did not think of it at the time I read the PDF and posted the comment. »[Our] product is NOT deterministic.« instead of »Our encryption algorithm is not deterministic.« tricked my brain into visualizing their software as a random number generator. So it is good that you point that out, I misinterpreted their statement.

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