On 01/09/2014 06:33 PM, Cliff Pratt wrote:
> I was shocked and horrified to find out that RHEL (and presumably CentOS)
> and Ubuntu no longer implement the 'rot13' program.
But they implement the NULL cipher as part of IPsec.
>
> 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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