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[email protected] wrote:
>Those of you who have had all of the materials will understand the
>foregoing. With the information provided heretofore, you can determine
>the effect on the other two systems. Also, those people will know my
>expressed fear of a premature announcement, such as that which has
>now been made, would have. This was the reason, that I resisted
>so strongly the release of the materials to the C'punks list
>though a few of you recommended that I do so. Perhaps we should have
>released everything? Who knows. However, in any case, that is water
>over the dam and IPG must go on from here. It is only another of the many
>mistakes that we will undoubtedly make along the way.
>
>Having said that though, we must go back to our prior
>evaluation method, a strict confidential mode. However, I believe that we
>have added several very good additional people who can help to analyze
>the system.
English translation:
We didn't want to release our algorithm because we were afraid
somebody might find a weakness. Sure enough, somebody did.
So I guess we're going to keep it a secret after all.
Hey, kids, security through obscurity just doesn't work.