[48685] in Cypherpunks
Re: RC2 code on sci.crypt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Gebis)
Tue Jan 30 12:20:52 1996
From: Michael J Gebis <gebis@ecn.purdue.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 12:02:30 -0500 (EST)
Alex Strasheim <cp@proust.suba.com> wrote:
> > For those not paying attention, there is RC2 code on sci.crypt. RSADSI
> > is acting as if it is real, and will publish some legal posturing about
> > it real soon now.
>
> On sci.crypt Bruce said it was a crummy algorithm...
What he actually said was, "It's not obviously a lousy algorithm," or
something like that. I took this to mean, "in the few hours I've had
to look at the code, I have not spotted any obvious problems."
He couldn't say, "It's obviously not junk," because non-junkiness is
never obvious.
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Mike Gebis gebis@ecn.purdue.edu
