[24632] in Cypherpunks
Re: Morality masks technical ignorance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy M. Silvernail)
Fri Dec 30 11:43:00 1994
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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From: roy@cybrspc.mn.org (Roy M. Silvernail)
Reply-To: roy@cybrspc.mn.org
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 1994 01:12:39 CST
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In list.cypherpunks, blancw@pylon.com writes:
>
> 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.
[...]
> And if there were no points of failure added by it, would you
> approve, agree, to its mandatory requirement?
Sorry, blanc, but the very existance of GAK is a point of failure.
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These are, of course, my opinions (and my machines)
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