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hacker · 02-07-2005, 08:30 PM

I for one, would never trust an application that used encryption without the ability to audit it.

What encryption standards are they using, if any? 3DES? MD4? MD5? AES? SHA-1? None? Something they invented themselves?

How do we know it isn't something lame like:

Code:

XOR + "Handango" * pi

Without the ability to audit it (and a way to retrieve the data from the desktop, in some platform-independent way), there's no trust. Without trust, there's no way my own data is going to get stored in it.

02-07-2005, 08:30 PM	#5
hacker Technology Mercenary Posts: 617 Karma: 2561 Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: East Lyme, CT Device: Direct Neural Implant	I for one, would never trust an application that used encryption without the ability to audit it. What encryption standards are they using, if any? 3DES? MD4? MD5? AES? SHA-1? None? Something they invented themselves? How do we know it isn't something lame like: Code: XOR + "Handango" * pi Without the ability to audit it (and a way to retrieve the data from the desktop, in some platform-independent way), there's no trust. Without trust, there's no way my own data is going to get stored in it.