[Cryptography] What do we know? (Was 'We cannot trust' ...)

[James A. Donald]

James A. Donald <jamesd at echeque.com> wrote:
>> Not when you are selling to government agencies.  If they want a customized
>> product, you produce a fork or a skew for that government agency and charge
>> them extra.

On 2013-12-27 02:48, Donald Eastlake wrote:
> Large customers, government or otherwise, that know what they are
> doing realize that if a custom extension/addition is incorporated in a
> product *just for them*, then they will be paying forever for it to be
> maintained and included with every future upgrade of the product.

Famously, government does not care.  It is just taxpayer money.