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Re: The future of security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Graeme Burnett)
Sat May 8 16:53:02 2004
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Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 01:13:55 +0100
From: Graeme Burnett <rgb@enhyper.com>
To: Ian Grigg <iang@systemics.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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Ian Grigg wrote:
> Graeme Burnett wrote:
>
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> I am doing a presentation on the future of security,
>> which of course includes a component on cryptography.
>> That will be given at this conference on payments
>> systems and security: http://www.enhyper.com/paysec/
>>
>> Would anyone there have any good predictions on how
>> cryptography is going to unfold in the next few years
>> or so? I have my own ideas, but I would love
>> to see what others see in the crystal ball.
>
> i. Cryptographers will continue to be pressed
> into service as security architects, because it
> sounds like the same thing. Security architects
> will continue to do most of their work with
> little or no crypto.
>
Hmmm
I'm afraid I concur - my personal experience of being a security
architect for
a major merchant bank was one of meeting regulatory requirement by post
development "due
diligence", or as my wife calls it "nagging", making the role
effectively that of "grumpy rubber stampers"
G
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