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[Discuss] AeroFS



Mike Small wrote:
> How do you examine closed source crypto? It's a fair argument that the
> code being available isn't sufficient to have all its bugs (intentional
> or normal) found, but if the code's not available at all...

That's both simple and not so simple: you compare what should be 
deterministic results, and you look for deterministic results when there 
should be none. In other words, you attack the closed cipher or hash 
implementation of an algorithm the same way you would attack an open 
source implementation of that algorithm.

-- 
Rich P.



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