VinCrypt
Ian S. Nelson
ian at bvsd.Co.EDU
Thu May 27 12:53:57 PDT 1993
>
> 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.
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