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Re: Stupid security measures, a contest
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stefan Kelm)
Fri Feb 14 12:06:27 2003
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From: "Stefan Kelm" <kelm@secorvo.de>
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:38:30 +0100
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Matt,
> If I were looking for a "winner" for this, I'd be especially interested in
> measures that end up reducing security rather than improving it.
one could argue whether or not the whole bunch of software tools would
fit into that category which has been crypto-crippled due to export
restrictions and which is, unfortunately, still widely being used.
Cheers,
Stefan.
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