Re: Encryption
Re: Encryption
- Subject: Re: Encryption
- From: "R. A. Hettinga" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 14:15:07 -0500
At 7:44 PM +0100 1/2/04, Robert Tito wrote:
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Why should I reveal a commercial product that has been written using a C++
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compiler using assembler for the encryption stages, it is NOT GPL, it has
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been developed since 1994 and it is NOT based upon any open source license.
Because if you don't, you get accused of trying to sell cryptographic
snake-oil. (You see, boys and girls, "Snake oil", in cryptography, is an
actual term of art :-))
Hint: there *ain't* no such thing as secret methods in *real* cryptography.
Anyone who wrote legitimate cryptographic applications would know that.
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So no we will definately not open our toolbox, besides the Dutch
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Intelligence will prevent that by all means. I am sorry we have the highest
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classification possible, unlike Verisign et. Al.
Yup. Sounds like snake oil, all right.
Here's a millidollar, Bobby. Go buy yourself a clue.
Cheers,
RAH
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experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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