Ron Johnson writes: > [An NSA backdoor in DES & successors] would only be possible if The > Government controlled the source code, or had an "understanding" with > those who write closed-source code.
The claim is stronger than that. It is that there are backdoors in the algorithms: weaknesses that only NSA knows how to exploit. I find this extremely unlikely for several obvious reasons. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org