[3080] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: practical encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Geer)
Sun Jul 26 15:31:43 1998
To: "P. J. Ponder" <ponder@freenet.tlh.fl.us>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 25 Jul 1998 11:46:42 EDT."
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Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 10:40:35 -0400
From: Dan Geer <geer@world.std.com>
The discipline of key management is one of the harder aspects of properly
implementing a cryptographic system. ...
To be sure. A proposition, then, about cryptographic
systems as systems, i.e., including key management,
might then be:
You can have good crypto or you can have easy crypto
but you cannot have good, easy crypto.
We can now argue about definitions of "good" versus
"easy" and in which beholder's eye these are evaluated
perhaps recognizing that we of this list are no doubt
unrepresentative.
--dan
