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Re:The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source ... by AdamJacobMuller on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @01:06PM (#18294285)
attempting to find bugs (likely cryptographic weaknesses) that will let them crack the encryption faster.
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Re:The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source ... by Mithorium on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @01:29PM (#18294511)
I should hope he didn't roll his own encryption, pretty sure openssl existed in 2000, the NSA could have gotten a copy of that easily
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Re:The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source ... by pavritch on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @07:07PM (#18297245)
I did not roll my own. Very few people in the world are smart enough to do that. I just create a very nice user interface to make things easy for ordinary Windows users.
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