27 May
1993
27 May
'93
7:53 p.m.
Even as a former 'hacker' myself, the second to last person I would trust not to install a backdoor (next to the NSA) is a hacker.
In addition, merely having been a systems hacker hardly qualifies one for writing complex crypto software. Without any assurance as to the authors' qualifications for writing a crypto package, or their integrity. Even if I could trust their integrity, I'm very leery of black-box software.
I think the line about "not trusting DES or RSA because those algorithms have been given to the NSA" about says it all. -- Ian S. Nelson I speak for only myself. Finger for my PGP key. If you are a beautiful woman, it is mandatory that you reply to this message.