[79530] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Failure of PKI in messaging
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Thu Feb 15 21:28:39 2007
Date: 16 Feb 2007 01:31:18 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <45D4DE71.2030007@echeque.com>
Cc: jamesd@echeque.com
> > If you can persuade everyone to use a single system,
> > it's not hard to make communication adequately secure.
> ...
>You are making the Katrina reaction "we need someone in
>charge". ...
Oh, not at all. I guess I wasn't clear. To the extent that people use
a single system it can be secure, but that doesn't scale. I have a
rule of thumb that any walled garden big enough to be interesting is
probably also big enough that bad guys have snuck in.
R's,
John
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