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From: Dave Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 01:33:38 -0500 Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] obfuscation/compiler/summary To: James Eshelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: mongers of perl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> James Eshelman wrote: > Now if you're writing for NSA or DOD, that's another matter. In-line > encryption all the way, but it will cost you in performance. The NSA, wisely, does not trust this sort of obfuscation to protect their secrets. When they wanted a secret algorithm (the Skipjack cipher for the clipper chip), they required that it be implemented only in tamper-resistant hardware. Here's one source(reputable: Whit Diffie) which claims this but doesn't describe the reasoning as I did: http://hotwired.lycos.com/clipper/diffie.html -- -Dave Turner
