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Re: Schneier on Bernstein factoring machine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Wed Apr 17 10:23:46 2002
From: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 09:08:53 -0400 (EDT)
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Derek Atkins writes:
> I see no contradiction at all. Bruce believe that Lucky is one of
> "those paranoid enough" that "should have upgraded years ago". In
> other words, Bruce is surprised that Lucky didn't already upgrade to a
> key larger than 1024 bits, due to his "paranoia".
>
> No offense meant, Lucky...
The union of the two sets of "cryptography users" and "paranoid
people" is necessarily non-empty. Who would bother to use
cryptography sans a threat model? And if you've got a non-empty
threat model, then by definition you're paranoid.
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