[foxhill]

well, it's a shame that poor arguments get recycled like this, but it does make for easy dismissal - cryptography is based off of the idea that the methods used totally transparent, the power to decrypt comes from possession of the appropriate keys. by closing a design, hiding it from scrutiny from the majority of hackers like ourselves, helps no one other than the individuals who wish to gain unauthorised/unwanted access.

this is a fundamental concept in FOSS and for anyone to try and rationalise their way out of it - be it out of some corrupted sense of trying to do the right thing - is absurd.

fortunately i feel that the very people that would be interested in this device will be aware of this; i hope the folks at yubico reverse this decision.

[hendzen]

So that's why the NSA has a whole suite of confidential ciphers?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_Suite_A_Cryptography