From: m5@dev.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 95 06:13:41 PDT
To: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
Subject: Re: Another Son of Clipper discussion paper
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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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