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Cat Okita cat at reptiles.org
Tue Feb 24 12:36:48 EST 2009


On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> This points out an awkward problem though, that if you're a commercial vendor
> and you have a customer who wants to do something stupid, you can't afford not
> to allow this.  While my usual response to requests to do things insecurely is
> "If you want to shoot yourself in the foot then use CryptoAPI", I can only do
> this because I care more about security than money.  For any commercial vendor
> who has to put the money first, this isn't an option.

That's not entirely true -- even commercial vendors have things like
ongoing support to consider, and some customers just cost more money
than they're worth.

cheers!
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