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Re: DES Applicability Statement for Historic Status
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mok-Kong Shen)
Mon Jul 27 12:09:13 1998
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 17:12:25 +0100
From: Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de>
To: cryptography@c2.net
C Matthew Curtin wrote:
>
> What I was really getting at was that in the contexts of scientific
> research and of large-scale engineering, we have to understand that we
> can't turn the tide of prevailing opinion on a dime. I believe that
> this is a Good Thing in general, but leads to specific instances of
> disappointment in the case of individual researchers and engineers
> whose opinions aren't (yet) widely held.
To some small extent the possiblity of Web publishing and posting in
internet discussion groups and mailing lists renders the situation a
bit better, I think. Although this way lacks the benefit of review
by expert referees it does provide the critiques by a wide public
which are rare in journal publications (one rarely sees 'Letters to
the editors' etc. Of couse this is (I think only partly) due to
the fact that the papers have been carefully checked by the referees.)
M. K. Shen
