Trillian Secure IM

[Alex Pankratov]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgut001 [mailto:pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz] 
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 7:52 PM
> To: ap at poneyhot.org; ruptor at cryptolib.com
> Cc: cryptography at metzdowd.com
> Subject: Re: Trillian Secure IM
> 
> Marcos el Ruptor <ruptor at cryptolib.com> writes:
> 
> >I found those threads:
> >
> >http://forums.ceruleanstudios.com/showthread.php?t=53433
> >
> >http://forums.ceruleanstudios.com/showthread.php?t=56207
> 
> One of them contains a link to an older thread:
> 
> http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33279
> 
> with this gem:
> 
> Speaking as a software developer, if I ever had someone on 
> my forums who's posts consisted solely of questions about 
> how my private encryption systems work [an earlier post by 
> a crypto-savvy person had asked about use of DH primes, the 
> block cipher encryption mode used, and so on], I would ban 
> them and report them to their ISP without a second thought.
> 
> If you're interested in creating good encryption, learn the 
> principles: encryption schemes are weakened when they are based 
> on someone else's work. So if you're honestly wanting to make 
> good encryption for Trillian, its a bad idea to try to use CS's 
> work as a base.

Funny enough, his conclusion *is* correct :)

Alex

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