[3956] in WWW Security List Archive
RE: Universal Data Cryptography Module V
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Phillips)
Sun Jan 12 03:22:15 1997
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 20:09:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Paul Phillips <psp@well.com>
To: BeachCruiser <pelicans@mindspring.com>
cc: jwp@chem.ucsd.edu, CDAVIDSO@is.nmh.nmh.org,
btherl@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <v01540b00aefd0e849b14@[207.69.170.10]>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, BeachCruiser wrote:
> I have no idea who you are or anything about you, but take it to the
> bank...if I had some obsessive need to know it I could have a complete
> lifestyle and financial profile on you within four hours, and do it all
> legally. And you worry about algorithms? To protect what?
It's almost surreal watching you defend cryptographic algorithm secrecy
on the grounds that nobody has anything worth protecting. Rather like
ridiculing seat belt wearers because their lives aren't sufficiently
important to shield. If security is this unimportant to you, you have no
cause to be a member of this list.
The software's feature list, posted to this list, came off like a
hilarious sendup of truly bad commercial products. I didn't save it, else
it would be tempting to do a full parody. Touting the number of
"procedures and functions" as a feature? Citing year 2000 compliance?
What a joke. Please allow it to fade into much deserved obscurity.
--
Paul Phillips <psp@well.com>
