<snipped> | > | >Talking about users as being able only to hold one bit continues an | >unfortunate attitude that, if only users weren't so dumb/careless/whatever, | >we wouldn't have all these security problems. | | This is an important point.
In November, 2003, the Computing Research Association, and the NSF held a sequestered workshop in Virginia to ascertain what "Grand Challenges" should drive the NSF funding priorities for the ensuing ten years. You can see more on this here[1], but one of the four Grand Challenges was that there be enough advances that one did not have to be an expert to be safe. --dan [1] http://www.cra.org/Activities/grand.challenges/security/home.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
