Scripsit illa aut ille Disaster <disaster@disfanfic.net>:
> > > Then don't let anyone get the source code!
> >
> > If nobody gets the source code, you can give out the language specs and
> > receive licensing fees.
> 
> Accept that NERV is not interested in making money! They are interested in
> doing everything to keep the public unaware of the real story.

The public can know about MAGI without problems. There are other things
the public must not understand (how the EVAs work for example).

> 
> > > > Therefore C is not C because there are different standards about it:
> > > > K&R, ANSI C, ANSI C99.
> > >
> > > Well C is C. But something other then C is not C
> >
> > K&R C is not ANSI C99.
> 
> ...... Yeah? So in other words, C is C but something other then C is not
> C!

No. All three are called "C".

> > - If you have a simple, crackable algorithm and do not tell anyone about
> >   it, probably someone might be able to guess the algorithm.
> > - If you have a complicated, uncrackable algorithm, giving it out does
> >   not do any harm to your security.
> 
> But keeping it secret helps!

Especially in this field: no. You'd get better reports about bugs in the
algorithm (they will be in the public and not on some hacker sites).
That makes it far easier to fix the problem or to warn everyone who
relied on the encryption if it is not considered safe anymore.

> > Especially one must never rely on nobody knowing the algorithm, and
> > exactly this is security by obscurity.
> 
> Which is more of an option available to NERV, rather then an exclusive
> plan.

It does not work. NERV does not have able competitors (they can't really
hide anything from SEELE, and everyone else does not have the means). It
would not do any harm to give out such things - but it also wouldn't be
of any use.

> > > They had time!
> >
> > They could not know when the first Angel attacks.
> >
> > At least that's how episode 01 sounds.
> 
> They still had to build the Eva's and the MAGI for that matter. Regardless
> of what they knew, things were gonna take some time!

Every possibility to speed up had to be taken.


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