[Cryptography] asymmetric attacks on crypto-protocols - the rough consensus attack

[Tom Mitchell]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 4:42 AM, Salz, Rich <rsalz at akamai.com> wrote:

> > My opinion is that the rough consensus can be counter-balanced by



Two personal hot buttons.
1) The use of consensus is an astounding risk.
2) The shortening of "informed opinion" to "opinion".

I can endure "consensus of informed experts in the field".

There has been some very good information here lately by experts that share
their knowledge and experience but to pick on a  TLA if the NSA asserts
with no test that foo() is better than bar() the students and other teachers
should shout "show your work".

My nightmare is "uninformed opinion by experts not in the field".  This is
way too common in congress and other fields where failure is not
an option like cryptographic security.



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