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Re: What would you like to see in a book on cryptography for programme
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lcs Mixmaster Remailer)
Fri Aug 11 15:33:13 2000
Date: 11 Aug 2000 19:20:04 -0000
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To: cryptography@c2.net
From: lcs Mixmaster Remailer <mix@anon.lcs.mit.edu>
William Rowden writes:
> In the tempting-but-wrong category, one could include samples of the
> insecure systems that result when programmers with no cryptanalysis
> background create their own cryptographic algorithms.
Yes, and let us hope that Michael Paul Johnson resists the temptation to
plug his own home-grown ciphers, Sapphire and Diamond. Hopefully he'll
realize that including his own ciphers in the book will ruin what little
credibility he has as an author.
