[Cryptography] Boing Boing pushing an RSA Conference boycott

James A. Donald jamesd at echeque.com
Sat Jan 18 20:04:47 EST 2014


On 2014-01-18 04:28, Arnold Reinhold wrote:
 > > > 3. If I were working for NSA tasked with with disrupting the
 > > > independent cryptographic community's response to the Snowdon
 > > > revelations, I'd be hard pressed to come up with a better idea
 > > > than a boycott of the RSA conference.

James A. Donald:
 > > Seems to me that the independent cryptographic community's
 > > response to the Snowdon revelations is Jon Callas and Daniel
 > > Bernstein.  How does boycotting RSA adversely affect them and what
 > > they are doing?

On 2014-01-19 09:22, Arnold Reinhold wrote:
 > So Jon and Daniel have it all taken care of? We can just relax, and
 > their admirable work, which solves all known and still undiscovered
 > problems

If it does not adversely affect Jon and Daniel, unlikely to adversely
affect anyone who is working to make his customers and users secure,
rather working to supply the NSA with information on his customers and
users.



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