[24626] in Cypherpunks
Re: Morality masks technical ignorance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (blancw@pylon.com)
Fri Dec 30 01:46:10 1994
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 22:42:25 -0800
From: blancw@pylon.com
To: adam@bwh.harvard.edu
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Responding to msg by Adam Shostack ( when bad things happen to
good crypto):
The technical reason to oppose GAK is that it adds points of
failure to a crypto system which need not be there. Those POF
are not adequately tied to the consequences of their actions
(releasing a key
improperly), and as such will be used as points to attack the
integrity of the system.
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And if there were no points of failure added by it, would you
approve, agree, to its mandatory requirement?
..
Blanc
