[147091] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: [Cryptography] Why prefer symmetric crypto over public key
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nico Williams)
Fri Sep 13 11:51:56 2013
X-Original-To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 15:11:31 -0500
From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
To: "Jeffrey I. Schiller" <jis@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20130909184856.GA7745@jis.tzo.com>
Cc: 'Crypto' <cryptography@metzdowd.com>, 'Jon Callas' <jon@callas.org>,
'John Kelsey' <crypto.jmk@gmail.com>,
"'Naif M. Otaibi'" <otaibinm@gmail.com>,
Christian Huitema <huitema@huitema.net>,
'Peter Saint-Andre' <stpeter@stpeter.im>,
'Jaap-Henk Hoepman' <jhh@cs.ru.nl>
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