At 10:23 AM 6/19/00 -0400, David Honig wrote:
>>To some extent it may be because publicly available crypto algorithms
>>aren't NSA-approved for military use, so there's no COTS code,
>>though there may be NSA-built similar products.
>
>Not-invented-here is no excuse.
In the crypto world, it used to be a decent excuse, because the
No Such Agency did have a lot more crypto experience than the civilian world,
and lots of people in commercial space kept reinventing the same snake oil.
It's not true any more (certainly nobody's sold snake oil in decades! :-),
but old habits die hard. So we lose national security secrets because of it.
Thanks!
Bill
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