Validian Corp (fka VLDI)

[The Penny Preacher]

TESTING - Part 1

Before I continue with Part 5 of my first telephone conversation with Bruce Benn, perhaps this would be a good time to discuss the subject that has been terribly misunderstood and grossly misrepresented by some of the less-informed for almost 1/2 a decade. I'm speaking of the question of testing.

A good place to start would be to bring your attention to the October 29, 2019, press release that had the headline "Validian engages in testing with the objective of licensing and deployment."

It is quite clear, or at least it should be quite clear to any rational human being that Validian would not have spent two years developing comprehensive test modules to be used by their customers if, as it has been claimed by some for years, ValidianProtect has failed every test that it's ever been subjected to. Such a claim is honestly too outrageous and too absurd to even consider seriously in light of all that has transpired and was reported in that press release.

So, if ValidianProtect did not fail every test as has been claimed by some, what has happened regarding ValidianProtect's tests?

The answer to that question is somewhat complicated because there has not been one single product to test, any more than there has been one single set of tests conducted over the years.

Bruce Benn gave us a hint of this in the December 16, 2015, press release. It was in that press release that he began to differentiate between the code required for the core technology and the code required for the interface technology needed to install ValidianProtect into an operating system or application. This has been made even clearer in recent statements in PDF documents and elsewhere that seem to say the code has really been divided into at least three components: the ValidianProtect Application, the Data Protection Platform, and the Data Protection Module. And as I mentioned in my recent post, Bruce has hinted that there are now downloadable modules of code for each of dozens of ValidianProtect features the clients get to select.

And it was in the December 16, 2015, press release that Bruce gave us the first hint that the core technology represented only 85% of the code.

You may recall Bruce making this important statement:

? Completing testing of, and an in-depth examination and review of every line of source code of, Validian's core technology, by a well-known and highly respected third party, to ensure the source code has been written properly and is of the highest quality. This is key to major mobile companies, large enterprises, and governments using and/or acquiring our technology."

It was soon after that we begin hearing claims by some that ValidianProtect had failed every test, blah, blah, blah.

The fact is the core technology was tested by that third-party lab and was found to be absolutely flawless, as is clear from the press release that informed us of the tests. And it is important to note that from that moment on the core code has not changed except for the purpose of enhancing features, capabilities and compatibility with new operating systems, cybersecurity protocols, hardware and software. At no time did ValidianProtect fail any of those tests in the sense that has been presented on this forum. Of course, it is true there were technical tweaks that had to be made with each operating system and the core code that was being used. But that is common throughout the software industry with all new software, and it is not an indication of failure. In fact, when one sees the test repeated time and time again and then announcements made that ValidianProtect is now fully functional in those environments, common sense and rational minds demand the conclusion that Validian Protect is an absolute success.

Evidence of that success was confirmed by the press release dated July 27, 2016. It is there that we read the following statement:

Validian's growing sales pipeline covers a number of market sectors:
• Mobile Messaging
• Social Media
• Mobile Apps and Mobile Communications
• Cloud Apps, Cloud Communications and Cloud Storage
• Healthcare
• Banking & Finance
• Insurance
• Government
• Military & Defense

In other words, not only did ValidianProtect's core technology pass all the tests conducted by the third-party lab in 2015, the core technology was then replicated in nine separate downloadable modules, each of which was tweaked and designed to be specifically compatible with the operating systems, security protocols, hardware and software used by each of the nine market sectors listed above.

It was just over a year after that Rafael Gorgal told the world that

"We are very impressed with our testing of installations of the Validian Protect Platform and Module..."We believe that integrating Validian's technology into existing or new mobile and web messaging and social media apps will solve a number of outstanding cyber security issues that have been exploited in successful cyber attacks."

Incredibly, almost immediately there were some who tried for the next three years to make those statements less impressive than they are. No doubt, this post will elicit a new round of those absurd claims.

I hope that you have the good common sense to put those claims where they belong, in the circular filing cabinet. Don't put them in the recycle bin, they are obviously already there.

I would suggest that if you want to know what Rafael Gorgal and other world-class cybersecurity experts feel about ValidianProtect, you read again the October 29, 2019, press release cited above.

TPP