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Re: Strength in Complexity?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Lloyd)
Wed Jul 2 11:25:03 2008
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 08:45:27 -0400
From: Jack Lloyd <lloyd@randombit.net>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 07:25:36AM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
> pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) writes:
> > (Actually even that doesn't really explain something like IKE... :-).
>
> Having been peripherally involved in the causation change for IKE, let
> me confess that it was caused by human stupidity destroying the
> alternatives. The author of the much cleaner spec asserted copyright
> and control over it, and fearing lawsuits, people turned to the
> the remaining alternative. A number of us were all to blame for the
> situation.
Out of curiosity, was this other spec Photuris?
-Jack
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