I was shocked and horrified to find out that RHEL (and presumably CentOS)
and Ubuntu no longer implement the 'rot13' program.
Cheers,
Cliff
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> On 01/09/2014 05:15 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 3:55 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >> On 1/9/2014 1:27 PM, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> >>> I think everyone should assume the entire ecosystem is compromised and
> >>> shouldn't trust anything. Code should be reviewed and bugs/weaknesses
> >>> removed IMMEDIATELY. The problem is obviously not everyone is a
> >>> programmer and not everyone will have the knowledge to understand how
> to
> >>> fix/improve the security issues. Of course, some software is still
> >>> good, but who's going to verify that and when? If you don't use free
> >>> software, you're a goner because now you have no ability whatsoever to
> >>> audit the code!
> >> I've programmed for 40 years, and I don't understand encryption
> >> algorithms nor can I evaluate their strengths and weaknesses. I know
> >> very few programmers who can. None personally, in fact.
> > I always just assumed that blowfish was good precisely because it
> > wasn't the one that was recommended/promoted by the groups likely to
> > be compromised. But, I try to stay out of politics so I don't worry
> > much about keeping secrets anyway.
>
> Bruce's twofish was better; it was his AES submission.
>
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