[82852] in Cypherpunks
Re: Hack the Mars rover
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul H. Merrill)
Mon Jul 7 12:43:26 1997
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 1997 11:45:52 -0700
From: "Paul H. Merrill" <paulmerrill@acm.org>
To: Ryan Anderson <randerso@ece.eng.wayne.edu>
Cc: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>, cypherpunks@algebra.com
Reply-To: "Paul H. Merrill" <paulmerrill@acm.org>
Ryan Anderson wrote:
> Besides, how much encryption is needed between two points if intercepting
> the traffic is expensive, the communications protocol is undocumented (as
> far as anyone outside NASA is concerned), and the actual frequency is also
> hard to find?
>
The appropriate question is how much encryption (and other security) is
needed if interrupting the traffic causes the loss of a great deal of
money and difficult (if possible at all) fixes. This is the mindset of
the Fed security wienies when specifying and designing; thus it must be
the mindset of the non-Fed Wienie looking to crack.
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I have no opinions (just facts)
so it doesn't matter what my employer thinks.
