Re:Another nail in closed source software's coffin (Score 1)

A backdoor <B>could</B> be hidden in the numbers, but everyone is so paranoid about that happening that the people who write the algorithms use well known numbers that seem random. For example, blowfish initializes the key generation part with the hex values of the decimal part of pi. While it's possible for them to use that in some way to have a back door, it's not like DES where the people that created them are the ones that might be trying to get at your data.