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Re: Strength in Complexity?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Wed Jul 2 11:27:27 2008
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:27:05 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20080702124527.GC28006@randombit.net> (Jack Lloyd's message of "Wed\, 2 Jul 2008 08\:45\:27 -0400")
Jack Lloyd <lloyd@randombit.net> writes:
>> 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?
Sadly. That situation was long and complicated and I'd prefer not to
go into it -- and I'd prefer actually if others didn't either, as it
is much more about humans and non-security politics than it is about
security or cryptography.
Perry
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