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Re: Crippled Notes export encryption
Peter D. Junger writes:
> But in one way the case may be worse for you cryptographers if you
> actually carry source code--or machine code--around inside your head.
> ... So, unless you first erase that portion of your memory that
> contains the C code for implementing the RSA algorithm ...
No problem. I can drink myself into a stupor, kill the brain cells,
and then be happily assured that I can just flip open the copy of
Schneier I'll carry openly under my arm and recall the algorithms from
there.
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