.Comparing ViaCrypt and freeware.
peter honeyman
honey at citi.umich.edu
Fri Aug 27 14:02:56 PDT 1993
> 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
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