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From: =?UTF-8?B?QmrDtnJu?= Persson <bjorn@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se>
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Subject: Re: library/binding for sftp?
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 11:19:22 +0200
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Alan Jump wrote:
> I'd much prefer to place a certain level of trust into peer-reviewed,
> thoroughly-tested algorithms than in an internally-developed process
> of unknown and untried effectiveness.

This is wise. Anyone can come up with a cipher that he himself cannot
break, but that doesn't mean that no one else can break it. I don't
remember who said that first, possibly Bruce Schneier, but it's a truth
you should always keep in mind when people are promoting their own
proprietary ciphers and security schemes.

Bj=C3=B6rn Persson