Re:CipherShed, the Truecrypt fork
by tptacek on Monday August 18, 2014 @08:20PM
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Thank you! I'm happy it's been pleasant for you.
I think the incentive problems with commercial providers are misconstrued; the market --- at least to sophisticated buyers --- is unkind to people who sell their trustworthiness. So commercial providers in fact do have a lot to lose.
To the extent that open source has an edge over commercial software in motivation and ideology, it's cancelled out by the immaturity of the code itself. Cryptography is extraordinarily unforgiving.
I think the incentive problems with commercial providers are misconstrued; the market --- at least to sophisticated buyers --- is unkind to people who sell their trustworthiness. So commercial providers in fact do have a lot to lose.
To the extent that open source has an edge over commercial software in motivation and ideology, it's cancelled out by the immaturity of the code itself. Cryptography is extraordinarily unforgiving.