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Re: Reformated: How secure....



"Perry E. Metzger" writes:
>Amateurs pretending that they are professionals going out and selling
>snake-oil crypto are one of the biggest threats in our business.

and then...

>I suspect it would take a real cryptographer very little effort to
>break your system, but that no one will bother doing so because it
>isn't really worth anyone's time.

Well, Perry, if it's really such a threat, isn't it worth someone's
time to combat it?

Wasn't that point driven home by the Netscape PRNG problems?