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Re: Strength in Complexity?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Tue Jul 1 20:29:59 2008
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: arshad.noor@strongauth.com, perry@piermont.com
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com, dbrown@forsythe.com
In-Reply-To: <87prpxtes5.fsf@snark.cb.piermont.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:08:18 +1200
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:
>No. In fact, it is about as far from the truth as I've ever seen. No real
>expert would choose to deliberately make a protocol more complicated.
IPsec. Anything to do with PKI. XMLdsig. Gimme a few minutes and I can
provide a list as long as your arm. Protocol designers *love* complexity.
The more complex and awkward they can make a protocol, the better it has to
be.
Peter.
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