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Re: A proposal for secure videoconferencing and video
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Fri Jul 28 08:10:06 2000
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 22:24:12 -0700
To: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>,
amanda <amanda@wineasy.se>
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Cc: eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de, coderpunks@toad.com, cryptography@c2.net
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t 01:41 PM 7/27/2000 -0400, William Allen Simpson wrote:
> I'll also note that provably secure multicast is an ongoing project
> over at Honeyman's CITI.
I do not understand what is meant by "provably secure". One can only prove
security against a particular threat. There will always be yet another
attack. Few things are secure against rubber hoses and hot pincers, or
against foolishness and carelessness, which tends to be even more common
than rubber hoses.
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