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do not fold spindle or mutilate
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 03:55:00 +0100
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At 08:15 PM 11/19/98 -0500, Bill Stewart wrote:
>Encryption is NOT just "mathematics, period". It's mathematics,
>plus operations, password management, key distribution,
>keeping track of who's allowed to see what,
>plus hardware and operating systems to run the mathematics on,
>and unless you're running it in wetware, it's also
>computer security to protect the hardware and operating systems.
>And it's black operations to go out and steal the other guys'
>hardware and keys and yellow-sticky-notes and crack their OSs.
Actually, to a sufficiently advanced civilization, these are
all describable with mathematics.
>In some contexts, especially real people's contexts,
>your PC may be a fine place to run the encryption,
>but in an NSA / DoD context, especially when there's a war on,
>the safest way to manage many of these things is to use
>dedicated tamper-resistant hardware with the users on one side
Nota bene: tamper-detection + zeroizing >> tamper resistance.
--Pasty aliens spied my mugs