-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello G�nther! On Wednesday, July 18, 2001 at 6:51:38 PM you wrote: > The average user can rely on the community of 'security experts' who > examine the code, or the relevant parts of it. Am I wrong or was the ADK > bug found that way? I mean - we won't have a 100% proofed secure, 100% > proofed NSA free, 100% proofed bug free software, but the chances of > finding bugs and backdoors increase drastically when the source is > available. I think it's "common sense" that an encryption software without > sources can never be as secure as software with sources. I thought this was finally cleared some time ago. I did elaborate on it on TBUDL and (when I still was a member) on PGP-Basics. And the whole argument is laid out in the - highly recommended, at least by me - - manual by Phil Zimmerman. The part he wrote on security is downloadable from my site in both English and German version. When I think that we just had another thread about security concerning Steve Gibson, where one point was that some people seem to take only Steve's word for quality ... - -- Dierk Haasis http://www.Write4U.de PGP keys available: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=SendMyPGPkeys The Bat 1.53d on Windows 95 4.0 1212 C To live at all is miracle enough. (Mervyn Peake) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8ckt Comment: Privacy is the core element to Freedom! iQA/AwUBO1W1jvTo1oA8g8dLEQLU5gCgmNRsz8cKJBf/UmrFcNZQSm22Fz0An1qE bs7WSNjC4XAvfeDXjTfEg1ev =1Wwe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ______________________________________________________ Archives : <http://tbbeta.thebat.dutaint.com> Moderators : <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
