[42300] in Cypherpunks
Re: Reformated: How secure....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Brickner)
Wed Oct 25 16:00:34 1995
Errors-To: cpadmin@toad.com
To: perry@piermont.com
Cc: privsoft@ix.netcom.com (Steve ), cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: (Your message of Tue, 24 Oct 1995 19:07:49 EDT.)
<199510242307.TAA07020@jekyll.piermont.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 12:59:04 -0500
From: Scott Brickner <sjb@universe.digex.net>
"Perry E. Metzger" writes:
>Amateurs pretending that they are professionals going out and selling
>snake-oil crypto are one of the biggest threats in our business.
and then...
>I suspect it would take a real cryptographer very little effort to
>break your system, but that no one will bother doing so because it
>isn't really worth anyone's time.
Well, Perry, if it's really such a threat, isn't it worth someone's
time to combat it?
Wasn't that point driven home by the Netscape PRNG problems?
