[649] in Cypherpunks
Re: VinCrypt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian S. Nelson)
Thu May 27 16:05:28 1993
From: "Ian S. Nelson" <ian@bvsd.Co.EDU>
To: clark@metal.psu.edu (Clark Reynard)
Date: Thu, 27 May 93 13:53:24 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.
>
> 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.
I think the line about "not trusting DES or RSA because those algorithms have
been given to the NSA" about says it all.
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