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Re: The best
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Wed Sep 13 23:29:08 2000
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Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 19:32:49 -0700
To: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>, cryptography@c2.net
From: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
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At 03:29 AM 9/12/00 -0000, Russell Nelson wrote:
>If the best is the enemy of the good, is strong crypto the enemy of
>all other crypto? Just something to ponder...
>
The best and the good are abstract enough to be cute in aphorisms.
Crypto utility depends on things like human interface. STrong crypto
loses to mediocre crypto with a better GUI among most of the market.
Is 100 Megabytes/sec of DES traffic worth 1 Megabyte of Blowfish-encrypted
traffic?
["Worth" what to whom?]
