[103232] in Cypherpunks
Re: ArcotSign (was Re: Does security depend on hardware?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Schneier)
Tue Sep 22 09:04:48 1998
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 07:48:17 -0500
To: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
From: Bruce Schneier <schneier@counterpane.com>
Cc: Colin Plumb <colin@nyx.net>, 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: <360790AF.AAE039E2@algroup.co.uk>
Reply-To: Bruce Schneier <schneier@counterpane.com>
At 12:57 PM 9/22/98 +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:
I hope you manage to persaude them then, because, as we all know, if it
>is kept secret, then even B. Schneier saying it is great will not rescue
>them from the snake-oil branding.
I'm working on it. I think I will be successful. They know that they have to
make their sytem public if people are going to use it. At this point, keeping
things under wraps give them a competitive edge. There will be a point where
they have to make all the details public.
Bruce
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