Re: Breakin attempts

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On 04/23/2010 11:00 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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."
>   
Sounds like a pithy quotation that should be found by google.  But, I
was unable to unearth that quotation.  Do you have a source?
> (It's an aphorism, not to be taken *too* literally).
>
> poc
>
>   


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