The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source Code

Re:The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source ... by lbj on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @01:22PM (#18294432)

My guess is that this is a marketing ploy designed to convey the message that the author's skills are above the NSA's and as such his software should be bought by anyone and everyone interested in great security. Considering the shareware version was 40bit encrypted, I highly doubt the NSA couldn't crack it before making that phonecall.

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Re:The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source ... by pavritch on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @05:21PM (#18296514)

All commercial encryption software uses the same public ciphers. Do you really think nearly 20 years after the fact I'm trying to impress anyone? But, they were impressed at the time about my user interface which wrapped the ciphers, and they later had a group visit me in California about some internal uses of that same UX; but nothing came of it in the end.

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Re:The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source ... by lbj on Thursday October 25, 2018 @06:38AM (#18299866)

Yeah that was the impression the blogpost left me with. If I'm in the wrong I apologize but as always I feel that honesty is the best policy.

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