On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 05:59:38PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: > Here, I just don't understand the logic. To me, encrypting without > authenticating buys you absolutely nothing, except to burn CPU cycles > and contribute to global warming. In the *vast* majority of > networking technology we use, modifying data in transit is just as > easy as passively reading data in transit, within a constant factor. > (That is, in a big-O sense, these are the same difficulty.)
So what? Being able to detect if you are being attacked, even if most people don't bother, is a huge step forward over having no way of knowing at all. -- 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org 000000000000002c90d9b4f79320cf4b85fef8165be49be8ebcc29be25d353db
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