1998-09-01 - Re: BEWARE of SnakeOil (tm)

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From: “Destroy micro$oft” <ihate_ms@hotmail.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1998-09-01 03:51:51 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 20:51:51 -0700 (PDT)

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From: "Destroy micro$oft" <ihate_ms@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 20:51:51 -0700 (PDT)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: BEWARE of SnakeOil (tm)
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On Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 10:43:23PM -0400, Jean-Francois Avon wrote:
|
| - beware of any product that has not been *extensively* peer-reviewed, 
with *all* the
| source code made public.  Security breaches are *very* easy to 
overlook and no software
| should *ever* be used unless it was peer-reviewed.


The source code for his Linux implementation is available at
http://www.filesafety.com/CRYPT.EXE - which is actually a tar+gzipped
file.

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