[3947] in WWW Security List Archive
RE: Universal Data Cryptography Module V
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jwp@chem.ucsd.edu)
Fri Jan 10 16:29:50 1997
From: jwp@chem.ucsd.edu
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 10:20:56 -0800
To: CDAVIDSO@is.nmh.nmh.org, btherl@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au,
www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
> From: "Davidson, Clyde" <CDAVIDSO@is.nmh.nmh.org>
>
> While [h]is algorithm may not be proven, do you know that it is faulty,
> unworkable, or insecure in any way?
Does it matter? Would *you* trust encrypting *your* data with an algorithm
that has not been subject to public scrutiny?
-- John W Pierce, Chem & Biochem, UC San Diego
jwp@ucsd.edu
