[Discuss] Good and Bad Crypto

[Derek Martin]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 08:14:15PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> The knife cuts both ways, Tom. If white hats can use tools like
> these to find flaws in code then black hats can use the same tools
> to find the same flaws. Closed source crypto becomes more beneficial
> to the world than open source crypto because it denies black hats
> the ability to use to these tools against it and leaves them with
> your once in a thousand years chance of accidentally finding a flaw.

Unless they hack the vendor and steal the source.  White hats aren't
going to do that.  Or... unless the NSA or some other organization has
paid off the vendor to intentionally include weaknesses for them to
exploit.  Or... unless the attacker works for the vendor and is taking
advantage of flaws he already knows exist.  Or... unless someone who
works for the vendor who feels slighted decides to post the source on
some black hat site.  Or... unless some criminal organization pays
someone at the vendor to steal the source code for them.  Or...

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Derek D. Martin    http://www.pizzashack.org/   GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02
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