Warm, fuzzy, misleading feelings

Eric Hughes eric at remailer.net
Thu Dec 1 11:40:47 PST 1994


   From: jamesd at netcom.com (James A. Donald)

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   A checker that merely checks if a signature looks like 
   a signature merely makes cryptography look stupid, like
   a power ranger suit.

Well, the message you posted doesn't look like a PGP signature.
It has similarities, but wouldn't pass the recognizer.

As I've said before, there is partial benefit to an incomplete
recognizer.  I do not want to abandon this benefit merely because
others are more difficult to obtain.

I don't understand why a recognizer set up at a single location makes
all cryptography look stupid.

Eric






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