Another Snake Oil Candidate
Russ Nelson
nelson at crynwr.com
Fri Sep 14 17:04:23 EDT 2007
Dave Korn writes:
> So by your exacting standards, PGP, gpg, openssh, in fact basically
> _everything_ is snake oil.
No. In fact Aram is saying nothing of interest. Cryptography without
a threat model is like motherhood without apple pie. Can't say that
enough times. More generally, security without a threat model is by
definition going to fail.
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