From: Phlip <phlip2005@...>
Date: 2007-09-03T23:52:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Seeing the source

Arlen Christian Mart Cuss wrote:

>> I like the idea where an application implements its most valuable part
>> (security) as closed source and the rest is left open.
>
> Closed source security is a really, really bad idea. Security should
> *never* be closed source.

Alice and Bob are talking past each other here. (-;

The mechanisms to secure wires must be open source, at the forefront of 
computer science research. And don't forget those compromising radiations! 
When I was a kid the popularizations of science used to discuss masers 
frequently, but for some reason we don't hear very much about them any 
more...

The actual keys and codes, and the locations where a given program bypasses 
them, might be closed source.

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