Strength in Complexity?

[Jack Lloyd]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 07:25:36AM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) writes:
> > (Actually even that doesn't really explain something like IKE... :-).
> 
> Having been peripherally involved in the causation change for IKE, let
> me confess that it was caused by human stupidity destroying the
> alternatives. The author of the much cleaner spec asserted copyright
> and control over it, and fearing lawsuits, people turned to the
> the remaining alternative. A number of us were all to blame for the
> situation.

Out of curiosity, was this other spec Photuris?

-Jack

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