From: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 95 18:58:05 PDT
To: jim@rand.org>
Subject: Re: Another Son of Clipper discussion paper
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At 16:36 9/5/95, Mike McNally wrote:
>If the algorithm is public (and to stretch a point, if the executable
>makes it onto somebody's hard disk, it's effectively public), I don't
>really understand how the above can be made a realistic goal.

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.


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