[3088] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: practical encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (RL Bob Morgan)
Mon Jul 27 10:40:38 1998
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 07:01:08 -0600 (MDT)
From: RL Bob Morgan <Bob.Morgan@Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: RL Bob Morgan <Bob.Morgan@Stanford.EDU>
To: Marc Horowitz <marc@cygnus.com>
cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <t5367gkqpdb.fsf@rover.cygnus.com>
> For certificate systems, I'll extend Dan's answer a little. The
> standard rub of "easy, good, cheap: choose two" applies to crypto.
> Dan's choice was between easy&cheap and good&cheap".
A couple of years ago I heard Jeff Schiller spin this catchphrase,
referring to security systems in general, as "strong, usable, scalable:
choose two." Whether cost is a factor in scalability or scalability is a
factor in cost I'll leave to the economists.
- RL "Bob" Morgan
ITSS, Stanford
