> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:18 AM, James A. Donald <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Come on. This discussion has descended past whacko, which is where it
>>>> went once the "broken by design" discussion started.
>>
>> On 2011-10-04 9:18 AM, Steven Bellovin wrote:
>>>
>>> Quite. I had to point someone at some of these threads today; when it
>>> came to this part, I alluded to black helicopters.
>>
>> SSH faced political and administrative difficulties that protocols easier
>> for the authorities to intercept did not face. That is suggestive.
>
> Really? When I added SSL to Apache it turned out it used to exist in
> NCSA (Apache's original codebase) and was removed at the request of
> the NSA.
>>
>>
true!
Anyhow SSL was broken by design. This clever guy out there will use his
abilities to hack into the bigger ones too. He will not stop with diginotar and
maybe he's teaching as well. We all know this so let's move on. ATM I'm looking
for new ideas or even old ones to re-invent.
-Michael
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