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Re: Strength in Complexity?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arshad Noor)
Mon Aug 4 17:45:18 2008
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:00:01 -0700
From: Arshad Noor <arshad.noor@strongauth.com>
To: Cat Okita <cat@reptiles.org>
CC: Ben Laurie <ben@links.org>, Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080803220722.D15677@gecko.reptiles.org>
Cat Okita wrote:
> ... or in other words, EKMI leaves all of the hard/impossible problems
> to be solved by somebody else. I'd have to agree with Ben that I'm
> not seeing the value add of an additional layer of complexity.
I view EKMI as using the best tools the cryptographic community has to
offer to solve specific business problems. As I stated in an earlier
e-mail, one man's meat is another man's poison. What you see as
additional layer of complexity is viewed as a layer of simplification
by some people - no different from how one might view a self-starter
in an automobile, as a layer of complexity over a crank-starter.
> That's an interesting presumption that you're making -- are you familiar
> with your audience?
>
To the extent that anyone can claim familiarity with something as
fickle and temporal as the needs of an audience, I believe I do (for
the moment). I recognize that I cannot please everyone in any
audience, and must therefore, do/say what what I believe is right for
my customers. Only time will tell if I got it right - temporarily.
Arshad Noor
StrongAuth, Inc.
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