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Re: Strength in Complexity?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pat Farrell)
Wed Jul 2 13:06:58 2008
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:56:44 -0400
From: Pat Farrell <pfarrell@pfarrell.com>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
CC: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <87bq1gb92u.fsf@snark.cb.piermont.com>
Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Jack Lloyd <lloyd@randombit.net> writes:
>> 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.
Isn't this true in general about nearly all security or cryptography?
At CyberCash, where we had real RSA/DES in the system, we found that
"users want convenience, not security"
We built a paypal equivalent on top of our real security. Paypal made it
look like they had security, but were convenient.
Which company was sold for over a Billion? and which went bankrupt?
Most "attacks" are more social engineering than breaking crypto.
--
Pat Farrell
http://www.pfarrell.com/
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