Re:zzzz..... (Score 1)

This public scrutiny is a method that crypto algorithms must go through to gain any value in the public. I'm sure everyone reading this thread can recall the lame DVD CSS once called "encryption". The MPAA tried to maintain security of this "encryption" by keeping its methods in their secret vault but that didn't do them much good. Having the public attempt to poke holes in a technology claimed to be secure is the only way to prove it is. I salute those who worked so hard to validate OpenSSL. Now IT folk concerned about compliancy in the government sector can actually get work done on mission critical systems (responsible for Federal Information Processing) without having to deposit mass loads of tax dollars in the pockets of greedy vendors (namely those that posed a threat to OpenSSL's validation).