[free-sklyarov] An Alternative Line of Argumentation

[Xcott Craver]

On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:

> A mild addition: What happens when a company has decent (or at least
> better than crappy) products, security broken, DMCA prosecution happens?

	Well, one might argue that such a situation is impossible
	by definition.  Any company who would prosecute cryptanalysts is
	as likely to produce decent crypto software as flat-earthers are
	to put a man on the moon.

	JMHO, of course.  But, anyone who perceives the exposure of
	security holes as heretical or malicious just doesn't "get" the
	general notions needed to write good crypto:  open standards,
	large-scale and long-term collaborative analysis, and observance
	of Kerckhoffs's Criterion.

> -Declan
							-S