Re: a hole in PGP

[danisch@ira.uka.de (Hadmut Danisch)]

> This is where you are very wrong.  I am not saying that "if you can't
> find any holes it must be secure".  What I am saying is that the
> source is available, and thousands of people have looked at the
> source, and none of them have found any holes in it.


It is definitely much more difficult to implant a backdoor into a program
which is available as source code than into a black box. 

BTW: Has anyone ever found a modified and weakened version of pgp ?


Hadmut