From: David Honig <honig@otc.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 09:45:30 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com>
Subject: Re: Fortify
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At 07:03 AM 3/13/98 +0100, Anonymous wrote:
>Tthe remarkably hackable nature of  Netscape's "weak" crypto has been
marveled
>at here and in the press, but has no one else speculated on how this state of
>affairs came to be?  I, for one, would like to thank the anonymous
cypherpunks
>toiling in the bowels of Netscape.  An amazing feat, achieving world-wide
>distribution of millions of copies of strong crypto, the Feds all
unknowing.  
>Does anyone here _not_ think this was the deliberate act of one or more
>cryptoanarchists?
>

Not to burst your optimism, but wouldn't good software design dictate
maintainable, ie, modifiable code?




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      David Honig                   Orbit Technology
     honig@otc.net                  Intaanetto Jigyoubu

Beat your algorithms into swords and your virtual machines into spears:
let the weak say, I am strong. 

Gosling deliver us from the ropes of backcompatability and mass production.