Re: Encryption
Re: Encryption
- Subject: Re: Encryption
- From: Ronald Oussoren <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 11:02:36 +0100
On 2 jan 2004, at 19:44, Robert Tito wrote:
Why should I reveal a commercial product that has been written using a
C++
compiler using assembler for the encryption stages, it is NOT GPL, it
has
been developed since 1994 and it is NOT based upon any open source
license.
That's not what he was saying. Many, if not most, well-known
cryptographers warn against using any cryptographic algoritm that is
not available for public scuteny. The reason they say this is that
cryptography is difficult and cryptographers are humans and therefore
make mistakes.
The only way to be reasonable certain that an algoritm (!=
implementation) is security is to have other, good, cryptographers have
a look at the algoritm. There are many algoritms by respectable
cryptographers that were broken soon after they were published, even
when the original designer thought they were safe.
Ronald
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