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Re: [Cryptography] What do we know? (Was 'We cannot trust' ...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Sat Dec 28 10:42:58 2013
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Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 18:51:52 +1000
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
To: Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAF4+nEHS7oU+cJEccPL7Ucdht8_5XTnu=qUFVKuz13cHXap+QA@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: Jerry Leichter <leichter@lrw.com>,
Cryptography List <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
Reply-To: jamesd@echeque.com
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James A. Donald <jamesd@echeque.com> wrote:
>> Not when you are selling to government agencies. If they want a customized
>> product, you produce a fork or a skew for that government agency and charge
>> them extra.
On 2013-12-27 02:48, Donald Eastlake wrote:
> Large customers, government or otherwise, that know what they are
> doing realize that if a custom extension/addition is incorporated in a
> product *just for them*, then they will be paying forever for it to be
> maintained and included with every future upgrade of the product.
Famously, government does not care. It is just taxpayer money.
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