On 08/06/2013, Jeroen Massar <jer...@massar.ch> wrote: > On 2013-06-07 06:50, Dan White wrote: > [..] > > A nice 'it is Friday' kind of thought....
Caring about secrecy (or obscurity) of algorithms is a fools errand. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs%27s_principle Taking Shannon's maxim "the enemy knows the system" to it's ultimate conclusion, the NSA put a premium on any and all looking at their algorithms. They'd prefer us to have a crack or they're not doing their job. As you say, they "have the top crypto people in the world" and this is a cherished paradigm of doing business in crypto land. Any useful system will survive that process.
