On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Jonathan Schleifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Eric Rescorla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> There's something truly ironic about someone lobbying for an entirely >> new and unanalyzed cryptographic protocol suggesting that using the >> most widely implemented crypto protocol in the world would be >> reinventing the wheel. > > There would be several changes needed as already stated on this > list. And new XEPs would need to be created. XEPs for stuff for which > already XEPs exist. If that's not reinventing, I don't know.
And your theory is that designing a new crypto protocol, a job we know from very painful experience to incredibly difficult, is somehow not reinventing? Please. -Ekr
