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Re: Why the exponent 3 error happened:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dan@geer.org)
Thu Sep 14 13:22:15 2006
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From: dan@geer.org
To: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Cc: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 Sep 2006 19:02:14 +1000."
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:25:11 -0400
"James A. Donald" writes:
-+-----------------------
| <snip>
|
| ASN.1 provided additional redundant information, making
| possible unexpected data layouts that should not
| normally happen. It had too much expressive power, too
| much flexibility. It could express cases that one does
| not expect to deal with, could flex in more ways than
| one's software is likely to be written for.
|
| <snip>
Sir, There is a lesson here as important as
Fred Brook's "Adding people to a late project
makes it later" and I urge you to put this in
some form of "print" at your earliest capability.
No, not urge but rather beg.
--dan
P.S., If needing further examples, take a shot at
the fattest, sittingest duck -- the PERL credo:
"There's more than one way to do it."
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