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Re:More Encryption Is Not the Solution by gngeal on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @05:56AM (#6132695)
"To an intelligence agency, a well-thought-out weakness can easily be worth a cover identity and five years of salary to a top-notch programmer. Anybody who puts in five good years on an open source project can get away with inserting a patch that 'on further inspection might not be optimal.'"

Suddenly, Dijkstra's insistence on developing the proof together with the program and providing it to any interested person doesn't seem to be the ridiculous idea that some people consider it to be, does it?

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Re:More Encryption Is Not the Solution by msg on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @09:39AM (#6133545)
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

-- Don Knuth

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Re:More Encryption Is Not the Solution by TheCoelacanth on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @09:47AM (#6133595)
It's still completely infeasible without better tools for doing it automatically.
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