The future of security
Steven M. Bellovin
smb at research.att.com
Tue May 11 11:36:35 EDT 2004
In message <409ACFC7.6050407 at systemics.com>, Ian Grigg writes:
> Security architects
>will continue to do most of their work with
>little or no crypto.
And rightly so, since most security problems have nothing to do with
the absence of crypto.
>
>j. a cryptographic solution for spam and
>viruses won't be found.
This ties into the same thing: spam is *unwanted* email, but it's not
*unauthorized*. Crypto can help with the latter, but only if you can
define who is in the authorized set of senders. That's not feasible
for most people.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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