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Re: How a Digital Signature Works
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bear)
Tue Aug 10 15:16:54 2004
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Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 11:28:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: bear <bear@sonic.net>
To: Matt Crawford <crawdad@fnal.gov>
Cc: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <1B9C76FA-EAF2-11D8-BC66-000A95A0BF96@fnal.gov>
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Matt Crawford wrote:
>> NEWS ANALYSIS :TECH
>> By Stephen H. Wildstrom
>>
>> How a Digital Signature Works
>
>Is this a "count the errors" contest? I count six.
Standard stuff, really. The reporter misunderstands something, or
"simplifies the explanation" for the article, or it gets edited
for length by the publisher, until the explanation given is --
well -- no longer true.
This happens with almost every technology article that attempts
any depth; we should be unsurprised.
Bear
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