On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Sean Rooney wrote:
> At 12:15 4/17/2001, Steve Rapaport wrote:
>
> >...And have thereby signed the death warrant
> >for the concept of security-through-obscurity.
>
> pay close attention to this...
> "publishing source code is a GOOD thing because 100,000,000 brains ARE
> better than 1"
the thing is..do we know for certain that the code will be published..and
if so, will there be people who will actually have the time to check that
nothing mysterious exists..
> > Snow did not feel revealing the code was a security risk.
> > "If a code is written well enough, it should
> > be safe from attack," he said.
>
> this also reveals a radical change in thinking and strategy at the
NSA....
> intriguing.....
>
> > > http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,42972,00.html
by itself it's a story...but coupled with Phil Zimmerman leaving NAI..it
adds a whole different dimension..
btw.this news came out over a week. there was an "interesting" discussion
on the pgp-users list between several of the list members and will price
of NAI.
regards
robert
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