Insecurity of public key crypto #1 (reply to Mandl)
Eric Hughes
hughes at ah.com
Wed Mar 2 08:37:22 PST 1994
I wrote:
>: Therefore _all_ communications should be encrypted at all time. It is
>: no argument against the principle that this is difficult to do at the
>: current time.
>there would be a tangible benefit from encrypting
>a list like cypherpunks with a well-known, even casual grade key.
Yes, there would be a benefit for those who are working specifically
on mailers, but for those, like me, of course, who aren't, it would be
a royal pain in the ass. This is an argument against the practice of
encrypting all traffic, not the principle. And this argument only
holds in the present time; it won't hold in the future.
As Perry points out, we aren't where we want to be. Yet.
Eric
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