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Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de)
Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:04:22 +0100
Marcus Watts wrote:
> Making encryption or decryption more expensive has an even more obvious
> impact on useability. Making some internal structure (such as the S
I don't agree with you on this point. Efficiency has certainly
impact on usability. But at least for private communications,
say a personal letter from Bob to Alice, a few minutes of encryption
processing time is certainly tolerable, if there is no other
more convenient and practicable means available.
>
> Besides, pardon my ego-centricism, but I think most of the interesting
> internet traffic that needs protection goes through those 33 countries.
That can well be the case. But if the authorities of the 33 countries
can't crack the messages, why care?
M. K. Shen
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:02