[103219] in Cypherpunks
Re: ArcotSign (was Re: Does security depend on hardware?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Schneier)
Tue Sep 22 07:43:32 1998
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 06:24:05 -0500
To: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>, Colin Plumb <colin@nyx.net>
From: Bruce Schneier <schneier@counterpane.com>
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, scott@loftesness.com,
shamrock@cypherpunks.to
In-Reply-To: <36078211.1C7A64AF@algroup.co.uk>
Reply-To: Bruce Schneier <schneier@counterpane.com>
At 11:55 AM 9/22/98 +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:
>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.
Well, _I_ think they can explain everything (and we hope to do an academic
paper on the idea), but it's not my decision.
Bruce
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