Re: [Cryptography] Why prefer symmetric crypto over public key crypto?

2013-09-07 Thread Derrell Piper
On Sep 6, 2013, at 11:51 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > The other thing that I find to be a "dirty little secret" in PK systems is > revocation. OCSP makes things, in some ways, "better" than CRLs, but I still > find them to be a kind of "swept under the rug" problem when people are > waxing en

Re: [Cryptography] Opening Discussion: Speculation on "BULLRUN"

2013-09-06 Thread Derrell Piper
On Sep 6, 2013, at 8:22 PM, John Gilmore wrote: > Speaking as someone who followed the IPSEC IETF standards committee > pretty closely, while leading a group that tried to implement it and > make so usable that it would be used by default throughout the > Internet, I noticed some things: ...and

Re: [Cryptography] Opening Discussion: Speculation on "BULLRUN"

2013-09-06 Thread Derrell Piper
...and to add to all that, how about the fact that IPsec was dropped as a 'must implement' from IPv6 sometime after 2002? signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail ___ The cryptography mailing list cryptography@metzdowd.com h