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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Thu May 27 1999 - 23:44:20
Ge' Weijers (ge@Progressive-Systems.Com)
Mon, 5 Apr 1999 10:46:26 -0400
On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 03:13:47PM -0800, Alex Alten wrote:
> You are right, we have been ridiculed in the community. Your news letter
> and web site have been prominent in stating that it is "snake oil". And,
> as a fact, our early implementation efforts have had less strength than we
> had originally estimated.
The community will probably stop ridiculing your company if you would
publish a white paper describing the systems you sell in enough detail
to let a knowledgable person make her or his own conclusions. The
information on the tristrata.com website is simply too sketchy. You can
protect your intellectual property with other means than secrecy.
> [...] The broad technology trends are acres of
> memory, lots of cheap microprocessors, and a sea of network availability
> and bandwidth. Together these make a practical, efficient implementation
> of it possible. Within 20 or 30 years it will probably dominate products
> using cryptography, pushing PK and block ciphers into niche areas.
While I'm sure that a lot is going to change in the next 30 years, I'm
not so sure that centralized key servers will be in high demand, because
of the formidable target them make. Making accurate predictions is
notoriously difficult, especially when you're predicting the future.
Ge'
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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Thu May 27 1999 - 23:44:20