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Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Rescorla)
Tue Jun 3 14:42:15 2003
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Cc: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>,
Scott Guthery <sguthery@mobile-mind.com>,
Rich Salz <rsalz@datapower.com>,
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Reply-To: EKR <ekr@rtfm.com>
From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: 03 Jun 2003 08:41:31 -0700
In-Reply-To: <3EDC9725.6588CFEA@systemics.com>
Ian Grigg <iang@systemics.com> writes:
> Eric Rescorla wrote:
> True, although, that begs the question as
> to how they learn. Only by doing, I'd say.
> I think one learns a lot more from making
> mistakes and building ones own attempt than
> following the words of wise.
One learns by *practicing*.
That said, though, there's next to no need for people to know how
to design their own communications security protocols, so it's
not really that important for them to learn.
> OK. Then I am confused about the post that
> came out recently. It would be very interesting
> to hear the story, written up.
The rough version of it is in my book.
-Ekr
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