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Re: Another Son of Clipper discussion paper
Lucky Green writes:
> Windows 95 is on a lot of people's hard drives. It is therefore public and
> available for every one's inspection. How many people do you know that
> have reverse engineered Windows 95. How many of those use a reverse
> engineered version. I'd venture it is zero out of zero.
Problems with this analogy:
1) Windows 95 is somewhat bigger than your typical encryption
routine;
2) The factor of motivation isn't considered.
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