Hi, this is not a technical question, but a rather academic or abstract one:
Do Cryptographers burn? Cryptography is a lot about math, information theory, proofs, etc. But there's a certain level where all this is too complicated and time-consuming to follow all those theories and claims. At a certain point cryptography is based on trusting the experts. Is anyone here on this list who can claim to have read and understood all those publications about cryptography? Is anyone here who can definitely tell whether the factorization and discrete logarithm problems are hard or not? Today's cryptography is to a certain degree based on trusting a handful of experts, maybe the world's top 100 (300? 1000?) in cryptography. Does this require those people to be trustworthy? What if a cryptographer is found to intentionally have given a false expertise in cryptography and security just to do a colleague a favor, when he erroneously assumed the expertise would be kept secret? Would such a cryptographer be considered as burned? Wouldn't he give more false expertises once he's getting paid for or asked by his government? I'd be interested in your opinions. regards Hadmut --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
