[643] in Cypherpunks
Re: VinCrypt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J. Michael Diehl)
Wed May 26 22:57:15 1993
From: J. Michael Diehl <mdiehl@triton.unm.edu>
To: clark@metal.psu.edu (Clark Reynard)
Date: Wed, 26 May 93 20:33:17 MDT
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9305270043.AA02074@metal.psu.edu>; from "Clark Reynard" at May 26, 93 7:43 pm
> Even as a former 'hacker' myself, the second to last person I would
> trust not to install a backdoor (next to the NSA) is a hacker.
Are you meaning to imply that there is a backdoor in this package? If so, how
do you justify this claim?
> In addition, merely having been a systems hacker hardly qualifies
> one for writing complex crypto software. Without any assurance as
> to the authors' qualifications for writing a crypto package, or
> their integrity. Even if I could trust their integrity, I'm very
> leery of black-box software.
You seem to know something about them that I do not. Care to share your
knowledge? Thanx in advance.
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