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Subject: Re: Checkpoint -
From: Todd Graham Lewis <lists @ reflections . mindspring . com>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 13:07:48 -0400 (EDT)
To: Michael Dillon <michael @ memra . com>
Cc: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <Pine . BSI . 3 . 93 . 961010220322 . 20976S-100000 @ sidhe . memra . com>

On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, Michael Dillon wrote:

> If there is no source code to examine, then how do you know whether it's
> true or not? Reverse engineering isn't the answer because it can be
> difficult to extrapolate the higher level function of a piece of machine
> language code. Even the guy making the claims said that the reverse
> engineering only "seemed" to point to a backdoor. And not knowing the
> skill level of the reverse engineer and not having access to the source
> code, how can we figure out who is right?
> 
> Full source code disclosure is the only way, IMHO. 

Seconded.  Do I hear objection?

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