[664] in Cypherpunks
VinCrypt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Hughes)
Sat May 29 01:18:39 1993
Date: Fri, 28 May 93 09:52:31 -0700
From: Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: "Perry E. Metzger"'s message of Thu, 27 May 1993 11:14:53 -0400 <9305271514.AA26019@snark.shearson.com>
>This even bites the best of us. Phil Zimmermann [...]
PGP 1.0 had Phil's Bass-o-matic cipher, which he subsequently dropped.
When I first saw that, I thought to myself, "snake oil," but not in
those words. I'm glad that lesson got learned.
>I, for one, will never use any crypto system for which the algorithm
>hasn't been extensively published and scrutinized.
I am in total agreement.
Eric
