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Re: .Comparing ViaCrypt and freeware.

To: [email protected] (T. William Wells)
Subject: Re: .Comparing ViaCrypt and freeware.
From: peter honeyman <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 17:00:57 -0400
Cc: [email protected]
In-Reply-To: bill's message of Fri, 27 Aug 1993 03:00:02 +0000.

> If you're worried about backdoors, reverse engineer it and verify
> that it works as advertised. Given that the program has to largely
> duplicate an existing set of source, this should be trivial.

do you mean decompile it, or reverse engineer it based on the
outputs?  that former is tractable, but i suspect the latter is
comparable to "busting" the idea algorithm.

neither is "trivial" in my mind.

	peter

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