[4993] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: so why is IETF stilling adding DES to protocols?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bodo Moeller)
Sat Jun 26 12:51:33 1999
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 15:32:32 +0200 (CEST)
From: Bodo_Moeller@public.uni-hamburg.de (Bodo Moeller)
To: cryptography@c2.net
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <3773E7CE.D5CDB293@geocast.com>
Tom Weinstein <tomw@geocast.com>:
> "William H. Geiger III":
>> [...] Netscrape, Micky$loth, & RSADSI may have no problem selling
>> false security to their customers, [...]
> Despite your contempt for Netscape and Microsoft, they do, in fact,
> sell strong crypto products where they are able to.
Unfortunately, though, often the cryptgraphically weak products are
used even though strong ones should be available; a prominent example
is the TLS server at www.microsoft.com. If they don't bother to use
real cryptography themselves, why would their customers act
differently?
