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Re: [Cryptography] Crypto being blamed in the London riots.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Wed Aug 10 12:20:40 2011
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Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:19:53 -0700
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: John Ioannidis <ji@tla.org>
In-Reply-To: <CABrqyHxPVV-eHwMGXyyzmtvibsJK1etb12rUi4mg5Y=uh=X3RQ@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: Nick <cryptography-list@njw.me.uk>, Sampo Syreeni <decoy@iki.fi>,
cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:59:53 -0400 John Ioannidis <ji@tla.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Sampo Syreeni <decoy@iki.fi> wrote:
> >
> > Thus, why not turn the Trusted Computing idea on its head? Simply
> > make P2P public key cryptography available to your customers, and
> > then bind your hands behind your back in an Odysseian fasion,
> > using hardware means? Simply make it impossible for even yourself
> > to circumvent the best cryptographic protocol you can invent,
> > which you embed in your device before ever unveiling it, and then
> > just live with it?
> >
>
> "Customers"? There is no profit in any manufacturer or provider to
> build that kind of functionality.
Blackberry already more or less has that functionality, which
disproves your hypothesis.
Perry
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