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Re: The future of security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Tue May 25 15:43:17 2004
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From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: Ian Grigg <iang@systemics.com>
Cc: Graeme Burnett <rgb@enhyper.com>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 May 2004 00:52:39 BST."
<409ACFC7.6050407@systemics.com>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 11:36:35 -0400
In message <409ACFC7.6050407@systemics.com>, Ian Grigg writes:
> Security architects
>will continue to do most of their work with
>little or no crypto.
And rightly so, since most security problems have nothing to do with
the absence of crypto.
>
>j. a cryptographic solution for spam and
>viruses won't be found.
This ties into the same thing: spam is *unwanted* email, but it's not
*unauthorized*. Crypto can help with the latter, but only if you can
define who is in the authorized set of senders. That's not feasible
for most people.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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