From: peter honeyman <honey@citi.umich.edu>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 93 14:02:56 PDT
To: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Subject: Re: .Comparing ViaCrypt and freeware.
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> 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