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Re: [Cryptography] (no subject)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugen Leitl)
Sun Nov 24 15:13:16 2013
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Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 13:31:04 +0100
From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 09:45:18PM +0100, Ralf Senderek wrote:
> 1) The concept of asymmetric key is unexplainable to your granny.
> Despite the fact that your granny is perfectly capable of making
No need to invoke grannies, all but two of our developers are a
lost case when it comes to crypto. And none of them can write
secure code, despite being Ph.Ds.
> informed decisions in the similar complex fields like financial
> transactions and the assessment of her cancer treatment options,
> it's a pointless excercise to explain the concept of a public
> key in a comprehensible way.
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