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Re: The future of security

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Grigg)
Tue May 25 15:44:13 2004

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Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 17:02:28 +0100
From: Ian Grigg <iang@systemics.com>
To: geer@world.std.com
Cc: Graeme Burnett <rgb@enhyper.com>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <200404291407.KAA2335503@shell.TheWorld.com>

geer@world.std.com wrote:
>     Would anyone there have any good predictions on how
>     cryptography is going to unfold in the next few years
>     or so?  I have my own ideas, but I would love
>     to see what others see in the crystal ball.
> 
> 
> prediction: 
> 
> just as in the 1990s the commercial world caught up to
> the mil world in uses of crypto, so, too, will it catch
> up this decade in traffic analysis


Curious!  Do you mean, in the attempt to
stop aggressors doing traffic analysis,
such as was attempted by ZKS?

Or that the commercial world will engage
in mass scale traffic analysis?  If so, how?
Most traffic isn't accessible by the world,
so I can't see that coming to pass.

iang

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