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Re: Java: Helping the world build bigger idiots
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Thu Sep 22 10:07:22 2005
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From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Steve Furlong <demonfighter@gmail.com>
Cc: "cryptography@metzdowd.com" <cryptography@metzdowd.com>,
Jerrold Leichter <leichter@smarts.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:27:36 EDT."
<7d752ae30509211427200c5e52@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 00:00:22 -0400
In message <7d752ae30509211427200c5e52@mail.gmail.com>, Steve Furlong writes:
>
>On a related note, I've worked a bit with avionics and embedded
>medical software. The certification requirements for those bits of
>critical code might be helpful for crypto programming.
>
Not quite. The name of the game is information security, and that's
far more than crypto. Sometimes, in fact, the two conflict.
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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