Re: Incompetent design of CryptoSMS; was: Re: All known english words
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Re: Incompetent design of CryptoSMS; was: Re: All known english words

From: Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btopenworld.com>
Date: Sun Sep 11 2005 - 00:51:00 CEST

Bryan Olson wrote:
[snip]
>
> I cited evidence on this; see my response to Gordon Burditt. How
> come you have not? I suspect you cannot because you have
> nothing, zero, no case; you're just making things up. The
> password-search vulnerability of CryptSMS is a huge weakness,
> and it is the result of the designers' incompetence.
>
> Joe Ashwood tried to explain this catastrophic defect. What did
> he get for his trouble? Unknown net-identities calling him
> names, quoting him falsely, and generally lying about what he
> said.

CryptSMS could have been fixed for a fraction of the
work that went into manufacturing the insults.

Andrew Swallow
Received on Thu Sep 29 21:53:58 2005