Re: Reformated: How secure....

"Perry E. Metzger" writes:

Amateurs pretending that they are professionals going out and selling snake-oil crypto are one of the biggest threats in our business.

and then...

I suspect it would take a real cryptographer very little effort to break your system, but that no one will bother doing so because it isn't really worth anyone's time.

Well, Perry, if it's really such a threat, isn't it worth someone's time to combat it? Wasn't that point driven home by the Netscape PRNG problems?