Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down
Eric Rescorla
ekr at rtfm.com
Tue Jun 3 08:41:31 PDT 2003
Ian Grigg <iang at systemics.com> writes:
> Eric Rescorla wrote:
> True, although, that begs the question as
> to how they learn. Only by doing, I'd say.
> I think one learns a lot more from making
> mistakes and building ones own attempt than
> following the words of wise.
One learns by *practicing*.
That said, though, there's next to no need for people to know how
to design their own communications security protocols, so it's
not really that important for them to learn.
> OK. Then I am confused about the post that
> came out recently. It would be very interesting
> to hear the story, written up.
The rough version of it is in my book.
-Ekr
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