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


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