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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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