[103216] in Cypherpunks
Re: ArcotSign (was Re: Does security depend on hardware?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Tue Sep 22 07:20:39 1998
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 11:55:13 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: Colin Plumb <colin@nyx.net>
CC: coderpunks@toad.com, doug@arcot.com, TSGman@earthlink.net,
adam@homeport.org, cryptography@c2.net, cypherpunks@algebra.com,
dbs@philodox.com, rdl@MIT.EDU, schneier@counterpane.com,
scott@loftesness.com, shamrock@cypherpunks.to
Reply-To: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
Colin Plumb wrote:
>
> Doug, I'd just like to thank you for replying. Even without looking at your
> description, the fact that you are willing to talk to doubters and admit
> the limitations of your technique make me a lot more comfortable believing
> that you have something. You don't fit into either of the two standard
> types of snake-oil salesmen: The "I can't tell you because it's secret"
> sort, and the "it's totally unbreakable, cures world hunger and
> disposes of nuclear waste" sort.
Clearly I failed to understand this, then:
"This note doesn't tell everything about our method--we *are* developing
a commercial product, after all..."
which somehow doesn't translate to "I can't tell you because it's
secret", it seems.
Cheers,
Ben.
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