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Re: cryptograph(y|er) jokes?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Kelsey)
Fri Jun 25 21:11:49 2004
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Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:06:48 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
From: John Kelsey <kelsey.j@ix.netcom.com>
Reply-To: John Kelsey <kelsey.j@ix.netcom.com>
To: bear <bear@sonic.net>, Hadmut Danisch <hadmut@danisch.de>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: bear <bear@sonic.net>
Sent: Jun 22, 2004 3:46 PM
Bob and Alice routinely discuss bombs, terrorism, tax cheating, sexual
infidelity, and deviant sex over the internet. They conspire to commit
crimes, share banned texts and suppressed news, or topple tyrannical
governments whose agents eavesdrop on their every communication. They
do all this with utmost secrecy and unbreakable codes.
However, Alice and Bob do not even trust each other.
A protocol designer then, is someone who does not think that Alice
and Bob are insane.
Who was it that said that protocol analysis is essentially formalized paranoia?
Bear
--John
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