On 01/30/2014 10:55 PM, Jeremiah C. Foster wrote:
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> "Öppen källkod", translated to English as "Open Source code", is not
> appropriate when it comes to information security. Information needs
> to be kept and transmitted in systems with the ability to encrypt
> information using strong encryption. Strong encryption needs to be
> auditable. Auditable code needs to be shared under a license that has
> strong copyleft, a Free Software license. This is why tools like Gnu
I'd say this is an opinion and not a fact.
> privacy guard are GPL v3, to ensure that anyone can audit and implement
> strong encryption. Open Source does not provide the same guarantees.
I don't see people having a hard time auditing OpenSSL due to the
license, and that isn't GPLv3.
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Received on 2014-01-31