17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
One of their requirements was resistance to static patches, as someone else pointed out that is just not possible in software, if some gets really bored they can at worst disassemble the entire thing, and re-write it from scratch without any silly GAK stuff, or with a row of 00s where the escrowed key goes.
I think I would prefer the escrowed key to a row of 00's, if someone wanted to use decode the message they could just use the all 00's key :-) Phill