[12580] in Cypherpunks
Re: Liberating Schneier's Code?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Wayner)
Wed Apr 27 15:07:17 1994
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 15:01:50 -0400
From: Peter Wayner <pcw@access.digex.net>
To: karn@qualcomm.com, pcw@access.digex.net
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com, tcmay@netcom.com
Yes, books are hard to update, but hardware is even harder.
What is going to happen to all of those Capstone chips that use
the "old" unfixed version of MD-5? Imagine what would happen
if the Capstone was widely used in the country? It could easily
cost many millions to update an algorithm in hardware.
