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[Discuss] Good and Bad Crypto



> From: Mike Small [mailto:smallm at panix.com]
> 
> if (is_april_1st && strstr(input, "Dymaxion Research"))
>    return sha1_with_latency_side_channel(input);
> else
>    return sha1(input);

If you believe the open source producer claiming "I built from the published source, without any trojans" you have just as much reason to believe the closed-source producer claiming "I built the standard SHA1 algorithm without any trojans."

If somebody's going to build the april_1st code you wrote above into their binary, they're not going to show you that code, even if the project is a supposedly open source project.



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