X.509 / PKI, PGP, and IBE Secure Email Technologies

[Anne & Lynn Wheeler]

Aram Perez wrote:
> I'm sorry James, but you can't expect a (several hundred dollar) 
> rowboat to resist the same probable storm as a (million dollar)  yacht.
> There is no such thing as "one-size encryption system fits all  cases".

unfortunately there are more than a few counter-examples that are made
enormously complex (and extremely expensive) and it turns out that the
complexity itself introduces additional failure and threat
vulnerabilities which aren't found in KISS-solutions.

nearly ten years ago, i joked that i was going to take a $500 milspec
part, cost reduce it by two orders of magnitude and at the same time
improve its security (in part by eliminating unnecessary features that
contributed to security vulnerabilities).

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