On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 10:09 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:35:55 -0430 > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > More to the point, there would be widespread panic among banks and > > online shopping sites, webmail sites, and anywhere else that relies on a > > public-key based security model, which is essentially all of them. > > Nah, those aren't really problems. As we have already seen with all > the recent spate of credit card number pilfering, it is far simpler > to get a crook hired by the company to get inside info than to > waste lots of time with cracking encryption codes :-). Indeed. One of the fallacies of the security-challenged is to think that by solving crypto, you've solved security. Needham and Schroeder put it very well: "If you think your problem can be solved by cryptography, you don't understand cryptography and you don't understand your problem." (It's an aphorism, not to be taken *too* literally). poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
