managing and protecting nyms...

[Sarad AV]

--- On Mon, 11/9/09, John Young <jya at pipeline.com> wrote:

> From: John Young <jya at pipeline.com>
> Subject: Re: managing and protecting nyms...
> To: cypherpunks at al-qaeda.net
> Date: Monday, November 9, 2009, 5:11 AM
> Sarad:
> 
> <Since it is discovered later, isn't that called peer
> review?
> 
> Indeed it is "peer reviewed," just delayed to an
> unpredictable
> future, and still not clear just when the fault was
> discovered
> nor why it was revealed -- as a helpful contribution, a
> ploy,
> a deceit, or a lure.
> 
> Peer review is an unending process, and beyond that is
> prolonged usage of a system under a slew of conditions
> and challenges. It is hard to believe that all cracks and
> weaknesses are publicly reported when there are such
> great rewards for keeping them quiet and letting believers
> continue in ignorance.
> 
> Cracks unfold not always at once, some are faked, some are
> the result of a deliberate weaknesses inserted into code
> to
> create a malodor of suspicion. Nothing unusual about any
> of those. Comsec is nothing if not obfuscation about
> capabilities.
> 

Thank you for pointing out some of the pitfalls with peer review.

Sarad.