Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: [please excuse delay in replying. i was waiting for noise level to drop] > Needham and Schroeder famously said that anyone who thinks his problem will > be solved by cryptography hasn't understood his problem, and hasn't > understood cryptography. i am not familiar with your reference, but i have been dealing with crypto from back in early 60's and i do understand problems and problems that i am faced with. there is a lot that can go wrong with crypto and in some cases, it does break down. > I asked before if anyone could point to a specific case on this list. I still > don't have an answer (you said you had one but it was stopped by list > management, i.e. the use of signatures simply didn't arise). if you would like, and ask, i will look for what i received from list management and sent it to you. off list. > IOW my view is that signatures *on mailing lists such as this one* are > essentially a waste of time. not always, as i stated before, a member of this list did try to forge my key and it was caught by list server. therefore, i contend that it is not completely a waste. i understand point of view and i respect it. but, as it has proved out, my using a pgp sig was and is beneficial. if someone does spend time to break my key and manages to forge my pgp sig, then i will create and stronger key. > PS BTW, an excellent layman's history of crypto is Simon Singh's "The > Codebook". i am downloading cd version now. looking forward to seeing what it is about. i did note that there was a notice 'for pc'. i do hope that it is not limited to msbsos pc's. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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