On the employment situation... it seems that a lot of applied
cryptographers are currently unemployed...
Adam,
just interested: do you have a definition of what an
applied cryptographer is?
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On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 01:46:09AM -0400, dmolnar wrote:
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| On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, John Kelsey wrote:
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| Also, designing new crypto protocols, or analyzing old ones used in odd
| ways, is mostly useful for companies that are offering some new service on
| the net, or doing some wildly new
At 12:57 PM 8/16/02 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
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I've seen very high rates of unemployment among people of all walks of
life in New York of late -- I know a lot of lawyers, systems
administrators, secretaries, advertising types, etc. who are out of
work or have been underemployed for a
At 04:21 AM 8/16/02 -0400, dmolnar wrote:
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Don't forget schedule pressure, the overhead of bringing in a contractor
to do crypto protocol design, and the not-invented-here syndrome. I think
all of these contribute to keeping protocol design in-house, regardless of
the technical skill of the
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 02:23:05AM +0100, Adam Back wrote:
Other explanations?
Same effect here in Germany.
I'm under the impression that security was never really done
for security reasons, but as a kind of fashion. Do it because
everyone is doing it. It's a problem of the decision makers.
On the employment situation... it seems that a lot of applied
cryptographers are currently unemployed (Tim Dierks, Joseph, a few
ex-colleagues, and friends who asked if I had any leads, the spate of
recent security consultant .sigs, plus I heard that a straw poll of
attenders at the codecon
Hey, this is off-topic for DRM-punks! ;)
more seriously: I think the fundamental issue is that crypto doesn't
really solve many business problems, and it may solve fewer security
problems. See Bellovin's work on how many vulnerabilities would be
blocked by strong crypto. The buying public can't
Adam Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Are there any more definitive security industry stats? Are applied
crypto people suffering higher rates of unemployment than general
application programmers? (From my statistically too small sample of
acquaintances it might appear so.)
Hard to say.
