[Cryptography] best practices considered bad term
Bill Frantz
frantz at pwpconsult.com
Tue Feb 3 17:30:37 EST 2015
On 2/3/15 at 1:52 AM, pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) wrote:
> Or you end up perpetuating a bad decision made decades earlier, and having to
> kludge around it for the rest of eternity. I'm thinking of ring mains in the
> UK (created to save copper after WWII, and a PITA ever since), and the analogy
> to X.509 (created to secure OSI directories, ditto).
See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_circuit>.
Cheers - Bill
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