[117092] in Cypherpunks
"non-trivialness" as an absolute justification to remain a cavemen?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Avon)
Thu Aug 26 12:17:04 1999
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From: "Jean-Francois Avon" <jf_avon@citenet.net>
To: "Cypherpunks" <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 11:44:41 -0400
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Reply-To: "Jean-Francois Avon" <jf_avon@citenet.net>
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 16:45:30 -0700, Petro wrote:
> His point, you Boob, is that any one of the constraints he
>mentions can change the binary enough to be different.
> This makes verifying the binaries a SERIOUSLY non-trivial
>task, and makes comparing them utterly useless without going thru
>them byte by byte, and then you STILL may miss a clever compromise.
The fact that it is not trivial is NOT a reason. Somebody with the energy,
knowledge and interest might have done it. If non-trivialness was a reason to
not attempt anything, we'd all still live in caves, shivering from not bothering
to figure out how to make fired...
Ciao
jfa
