.Comparing ViaCrypt and freeware.

[peter honeyman]

> If you're worried about backdoors, reverse engineer it and verify
> that it works as advertised. Given that the program has to largely
> duplicate an existing set of source, this should be trivial.

do you mean decompile it, or reverse engineer it based on the
outputs?  that former is tractable, but i suspect the latter is
comparable to "busting" the idea algorithm.

neither is "trivial" in my mind.

	peter