> No, I'm not a native speaker, some of the pronouns still confuse me. > By 'we' I meant one of us in the community that would be willing to do > it, despite no real justification other than paranoia, not the > community as a whole.
There are no OpenBSD developers who can do what you propose. > > Maybe after we finish that crypto audit you propose (which we never > > thought of before), next week we'll take on the starving children in > > africa problem, or peace in the middle east. > > > What I meant was that it would be a better use of time to audit the > ciphers (Which I am more than sure has been done numerous times) than > it would be to replace all our encryption with an obscure cipher > because the current ciphers may or may not have a backdoor that has > managed to go unnoticed for many years and has been looked at by many > experts. you are mixing apples and oranges here. auditing code is not the same as auditing cryptographic primitives. > > The only reason I say that 'it would help more than just us' is that > I'm tired of broken ciphers in other OSes causing systems to be > compromised and start spamming me with shit and would rather they used > our code. In reality, I don't give a shit about any else who doesn't > pay me, make my life easier or make my life more enjoyable. Sorry, you took a wrong turn on your way to alt.crypto.kooks
