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Re: crypto wiki -- good idea, bad idea?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy M. Silvernail)
Mon Dec 12 15:42:18 2005

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Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:19:37 -0500
From: "Roy M. Silvernail" <roy@rant-central.com>
To: "Travis H." <solinym@gmail.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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Travis H. wrote:

>Would a wiki specifically for crypto distribute the burden enough to be useful?
>Or should we just stick to wikipedia?  Is it doing a satisfactory job?
>  
>
I'd read it.  More resources == better.  But keep the current Wikipedia
controversy in mind WRT the veracity of the contributed material.  Then
again, if it's a crypto wiki, I suppose we could expect some
credentialing system to be incorporated.  It could even be presented as
a tutorial.

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