In (rec.radio.amateur.homebrew), phil hunt wrote:
Modern crypto is good enough to withstand all cryptanalytic
attacks.
That's a great idea, and I suspect tthat you're right in the general
case. But a modern cryptosystem, badly implemented, will have all
manner of vulnerabilities -- most of which are not particularly
obvious.
Remember the competition for the successor to DES as the standard
crypto algorithm? That was *quite* interesting.
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