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by bb88 2792 days ago
> And just because a cipher is public does not mean that there does not exist a side channel in the implementation of the ciphers or a mistake in your usage of them.

And just because they have the source code, doesn't mean they couldn't get it from reverse engineering the binary. I have not seen a binary that was completely resistant to reverse engineering yet.

Likely he was just saving them time.