> 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?

No I didn't.  I was addressing the open-source part of your comment.

As for proprietary libraries, you do realise that they need maintaining, 
being ported to new platforms, etc...


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