8 Oct
2000
8 Oct
'00
4:58 p.m.
Bram Cohen wrote:
On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Ben Laurie wrote:
Since we're in hair-splitting mode, I should point out that "prevents the denial of an act" is not equivalent to a "negation that something is false". Of course, logically, it comes to the same thing, but then, so does "assertion that something is true".
Of course, the idea that you could 'prevent the denial of an act' is completely wrong. The explanation "All this fancy-schmancy crypto stuff is bullshit" is pretty much universally applicable.
I have to agree that actually doing stuff with crypto is substantially more useful (and interesting) than trying to prove things with it. Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html Coming to ApacheCon Europe 2000? http://apachecon.com/