On 10/09/2012 02:51 PM, Francois Labreque wrote:

>>>>> Right. And encryption/decryption algoritms sprout from trees?
>>>>
>>>> From what I've seen, there are, like, three academics globally who
>>>> write the vast majority of this stuff. And there are already /way/ more
>>>> ciphers in existence than anybody actually wants or needs.
>>>
>>> Ok. And no one ever needs to implement those algorithms?
>>
>> Well, that's true. I mean, it's not as if there are already thousands of
>> proprietary and open-source libraries that implement both basic
>> cryptographic primitives and entire protocols... Oh, wait.
>
> Suuuure. The government, military and finance industries really love
> using open-source libraries to encrypt their confidential information.
>
> And private industries really, absolutely, unequivocally love having to
> distribute their software for free because theses same open source
> libraries have licencing terms that prevent them from being used in
> commercial software!

Perhaps you missed the part where I said there are proprietary libraries 
for this as well?

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