Fortify
David Honig
honig at otc.net
Fri Mar 13 09:45:30 PST 1998
At 07:03 AM 3/13/98 +0100, Anonymous wrote:
>Tthe remarkably hackable nature of Netscape's "weak" crypto has been
marveled
>at here and in the press, but has no one else speculated on how this state of
>affairs came to be? I, for one, would like to thank the anonymous
cypherpunks
>toiling in the bowels of Netscape. An amazing feat, achieving world-wide
>distribution of millions of copies of strong crypto, the Feds all
unknowing.
>Does anyone here _not_ think this was the deliberate act of one or more
>cryptoanarchists?
>
Not to burst your optimism, but wouldn't good software design dictate
maintainable, ie, modifiable code?
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David Honig Orbit Technology
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Beat your algorithms into swords and your virtual machines into spears:
let the weak say, I am strong.
Gosling deliver us from the ropes of backcompatability and mass production.
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