Re: The War is Underway (fwd)
At 04:10 PM 5/10/97 -0700, Kent Crispin wrote:
Hence the value of the "Crypto is Cool" approach. A valuable addition would be crypto packages designed for high school kids. All my many nieces and nephews are on the net...
I usually don't reply to these kind of posts, but since you have mentioned this before and since you obviously still don't deem it appropriate to get yourself up to speed by reading the archives, your idea has been discussed and tried. People won't use crypto unless it is either transparent, meaning put there *for* them by the OS vendor/application developer or because the see a need for using it. The few fanatics that use crypto because "it is cool" are inconsequential when the objective is bringing crypto to the masses. -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred "I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence." Mahatma Gandhi
On Sun, May 11, 1997 at 01:18:43PM -0700, Lucky Green wrote:
At 04:10 PM 5/10/97 -0700, Kent Crispin wrote:
Hence the value of the "Crypto is Cool" approach. A valuable addition would be crypto packages designed for high school kids. All my many nieces and nephews are on the net...
I usually don't reply to these kind of posts, but since you have mentioned this before
Actually, you must be confusing me with someone else -- I can't, to my recollection, remember ever having said anything about this before. (Of course, you could always go back in the archives and check.) I was just responding to the idea mention by someone else (except I think they worded it "ciphers are cool" or something like that).
and since you obviously still don't deem it appropriate to get yourself up to speed by reading the archives, your idea has been discussed and tried.
With a memory like mine (and yours too, apparently) reading the archives would do no good -- I can't remember a thousandth of all the stuff I read, anyway.
People won't use crypto unless it is either transparent, meaning put there *for* them by the OS vendor/application developer or because the see a need for using it. The few fanatics that use crypto because "it is cool" are inconsequential when the objective is bringing crypto to the masses.
I guess we are doomed, then. -- Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited", kent@songbird.com the thief he kindly spoke... PGP fingerprint: B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44 61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55 http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html
Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com> writes:
On Sun, May 11, 1997 at 01:18:43PM -0700, Lucky Green wrote:
People won't use crypto unless it is either transparent, meaning put there *for* them by the OS vendor/application developer or because the see a need for using it. The few fanatics that use crypto because "it is cool" are inconsequential when the objective is bringing crypto to the masses.
I guess we are doomed, then.
Netscape Communicator has S/MIME built in. I'd imagine that their support is kinda cheezy and underuses crypto, but it's a step in the right direction. Considering how open the internet is to snooping, I think it's nearly insane for business users to not use crypto. I guess it's testimony to the effectiveness of draconian gov't regualtions. Jer "standing on top of the world/ never knew how you never could/ never knew why you never could live/ innocent life that everyone did" -Wormhole
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