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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:16:07 ADT
David Honig (honig@otc.net)
Fri, 20 Mar 1998 09:06:34 -0800
At 01:41 PM 3/19/98 -0800, bram wrote:
>Uh, guys ...
>
>While this electronic surveillance stuff may be interesting, it falls
>under the category of 'physical surveillance' and as a result is decidedly
>_off topic_
>
I used to wonder why there was so much discussion of commerce and
cash-registers on
what I thought should be an engineerish list. Then I did a little reading...
and found it very fundamental. What is money? What is identity? What is
trust?
If you are trying to analyze the security of a system you need to
understand its
vulnerabilities. How much would the opponent have to spend? What weaker link
(possibly outside your system, e.g., collusion between two other parties)
might they find?
How difficult are those alternate routes? Can crypto help?
Crypto engineering is like reliability engineering. Its broader than one
field and encompasses
systems and their environments. There is some craft to this.
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David Honig Orbit Technology
honig@otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu
The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play
any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to
serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear
images. -Einstein
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:16:07 ADT