At 07:03 AM 3/13/98 +0100, Anonymous wrote:
Tthe remarkably hackable nature of Netscape's "weak" crypto has been marveled at here and in the press, but has no one else speculated on how this state of affairs came to be? I, for one, would like to thank the anonymous cypherpunks toiling in the bowels of Netscape. An amazing feat, achieving world-wide distribution of millions of copies of strong crypto, the Feds all unknowing. Does anyone here _not_ think this was the deliberate act of one or more cryptoanarchists?
Not to burst your optimism, but wouldn't good software design dictate maintainable, ie, modifiable code? ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig@otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu Beat your algorithms into swords and your virtual machines into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. Gosling deliver us from the ropes of backcompatability and mass production.