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Re: [Cryptography] Boing Boing pushing an RSA Conference boycott
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salz, Rich)
Wed Jan 15 13:42:07 2014
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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: "cryptography@metzdowd.com" <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:29:09 -0500
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> Also, we have the fact that they ignored the warnings that came out about DUAL_EC, from around 2007 - 2013.
> In short, their highly regarded cryptographic experts were not deployed, not available, not on that job.
Perhaps their experts had different opinions. Or perhaps the marketing literature you quoted was somewhat exaggerated; wow, like that's never happened before.
It's easy to look backwards and say "they must have been evil." But unless you were there, or can read minds, that's just an opinion.
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