Re: is there a master PW?

From: xpyttl (xpyttl_NOSPAM_at_earthling.net)
Date: 11/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 07:58:20 -0500

"Bill Unruh" <unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca> wrote in message
news:cog1em$55l$1@nntp.itservices.ubc.ca...

> ]Are you telling me that with a $29.99 crypto app I could defeat the
efforts of
> ]the all powerful, all knowing, all seeing NSA?
>
> Yes. assuming you used it properly.

I wouldn't be quite that terse. The word "could" in the question is
important. There probably are $29.95 crypto apps out there that are
practically impossible to break. But there are a LOT of crypto apps out
there written by people without a clue. In those cases, "used properly"
means never using them in the first place.

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