Morality masks technical ignorance

Roy M. Silvernail roy at cybrspc.mn.org
Fri Dec 30 08:24:17 PST 1994


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In list.cypherpunks, blancw at pylon.com writes:

> 
> Responding to msg by Adam Shostack ( when bad things happen to 
> good crypto):
> 
>         The technical reason to oppose GAK is that it adds points of  
> failure to a crypto system which need not be there.

[...]

> And if there were no points of failure added by it, would you 
> approve, agree, to its mandatory requirement?

Sorry, blanc, but the very existance of GAK is a point of failure.
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       Roy M. Silvernail         [ ]  roy at cybrspc.mn.org
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