Distributing user-developed Linux software and licensing issues.

Mike McCarty mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Thu Jan 19 08:11:36 UTC 2006


Markku Kolkka wrote:
> Runesabre kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika torstai, 19. 
> tammikuuta 2006 01:10):
> 
>>I'm not a security expert so I'm learning as I go.
>>What I can't really understand is how a client-side
>>application can be completely open source and secure
>>at the same time without giving away its encryption
>>techniques.
> 
> 
> The client is Open Source, secure, _and_ it "gives away" the 
> encryption techniques. All encryption algorithms in general use 

[snip]

Another way to answer this is by saying that the term "strong
encryption" means encryption which is secure even when the
means of encryption and decryption are both known to the
third party. Any other kind of encryption is known as "weak
encryption".

Mike
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