01-30-2014, 06:19 AM
you wonder why there is no "transpancey", yet you have not made any effort to get involved with hashcat. this is your first post on the forums, we've never seen you on IRC, you've never filed any reports on trac. i tried searching for your far-reaching hashat tutorial, but all i found were some trollbox logs of you recommending hashcat to people (irony?) you've not made any effort to get involved with hashcat, so why do you care about transparency?
transparency and open source are two vastly different things. you can have one without the other. if you want to know what's going on with hashcat, then get involved with hashcat. you will see there is plenty of transparency with the project, atom talks freely about its development. the project advances just fine without being open source. if you have something worthwhile to contribute to hashcat, just talk to atom. and on that note, if you honestly think that you are talented enough to contribute something worthwhile to hashcat, then you would likely also possess the skill necessary to audit hashcat for backdoors without the aid of the source. most people do not audit open source code anyway, the "many eyes" myth is indeed a myth. everyone assumes that someone else is auditing the code (cryptocat?)
welcome to the forums.
transparency and open source are two vastly different things. you can have one without the other. if you want to know what's going on with hashcat, then get involved with hashcat. you will see there is plenty of transparency with the project, atom talks freely about its development. the project advances just fine without being open source. if you have something worthwhile to contribute to hashcat, just talk to atom. and on that note, if you honestly think that you are talented enough to contribute something worthwhile to hashcat, then you would likely also possess the skill necessary to audit hashcat for backdoors without the aid of the source. most people do not audit open source code anyway, the "many eyes" myth is indeed a myth. everyone assumes that someone else is auditing the code (cryptocat?)
welcome to the forums.