[Cryptography] Public-key auth as envisaged by first-year science students

[Michael Kjörling]

On 11 Aug 2016 01:27 +0200, from crypto at senderek.ie (Ralf Senderek):
>> I was thinking of the "obvious" solution of suggesting PKI here), their
>> solution was "Send an owl".
> 
> Maybe the Biologists, after all, remind us that in order to have a secure
> system, at least one step must be performed non-electronically.

So RFC 1149 actually anticipated RFCs 6973 and 7258?

Admittedly, RFC 6973 seems to not discuss the non-electronic aspects
of threat migitations, seemingly reducing that whole issue to only
data minimization, which might help in non-electronic transfer but by
itself doesn't solve the problem.

(Yes, this post is a little tongue in cheek.)

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