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Re:The NSA called me after midnight and requested my source ... by vl on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @04:37PM (#22939075)
Being NSA they could have easily have gotten source code in the covert way - one of the employees had copy at home, they emailed it around! But for encryption software there is no value in source code in the first place - algorithms are standard, and software can be disassembled anyway. All access to the source code does is allows them to save time on disassembly. Author knew all this and this is why he gave them source code in the first place.

Basically fabricating this story and risking exposure just wasn’t necessary.

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Re:The NSA called me after midnight and requested my source ... by unsignedchar on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @02:37AM (#22942877)
Having the source code probably just saves time on the analysis of vulnerabilities and triggering timed glitches.
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