VinCrypt

Eric Hughes hughes at soda.berkeley.edu
Fri May 28 21:37:59 PDT 1993


>This even bites the best of us. Phil Zimmermann [...]

PGP 1.0 had Phil's Bass-o-matic cipher, which he subsequently dropped.
When I first saw that, I thought to myself, "snake oil," but not in
those words.  I'm glad that lesson got learned.

>I, for one, will never use any crypto system for which the algorithm
>hasn't been extensively published and scrutinized.

I am in total agreement.

Eric






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