On 1/20/14, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: > Phil thinks I misunderstood/misrepresented him. > > His statement > > <begin extract> > But in the real world, such assumptions often don't apply, and so even > relatively weak crypto can be de facto quite secure. > </end extract> > > immediately following the one about DES that I quoted earlier suggests > otherwise to me. I am delighted that he does not in fact judge DES > effective. > > I reacted to his comments as I did because their "realist" flavor > troubled me. On-line systems are in crisis; and this crisis---It was > wholly predictable and was indeed predicted---is an outgrowth of a > pervasive notion that the manifestly inadequate is enough. > > Two major retail chains have now lost the confidence of their most > valuable customers, and they will not be the last organizations to > find themselves in this situation. In these circumstances it seems > to me that we have had enough expressions of what seems to me to be > crackpot realism about security and encryption. > > None of this, of course, is intended to suggest that Phil is not > entitled to have and express his own, very different views. > > -- > John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA >
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