On Tue, 19 Sep 1995, Rev. Mark Grant wrote:
If it wasn't for ITAR the Net would already have secure encryption and authentication, and most such hacker attacks would be impossible (or at least impractical).
As someone who has hacked a little I would say that sloppy coding (much like netscape's) has helped hackers far more than lack of encryption. Imagine for a moment if sun had included some form of encryption (maybe in nfs ?) in sunos 4.x.x, would it have been effective if it had as many holes as sendmail, etc.. ? Good algorithms well coded will hurt hackers. Good algorithms slopply coded will simply provide hackers with one more toy to abuse, while giving average people a false since of security (but you SAID it was strong crypto, so why did they get my credit card number ?) pUFF