[Cryptography] Brainstorming for encrypted text messaging ideas...with a twist

Richard Outerbridge outer at interlog.com
Wed Jun 21 02:58:51 EDT 2017


> On 2017-06-21 (172), at 01:23:07, Peter Gutmann <pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> 
> Richard Outerbridge <outer at interlog.com> writes:
> 
>> Crypto is easy, Key Management intractable?
> 
> Yep.  Pick just about any crypto, it should be good enough.  It's the key
> management that'll let you down.
> 
> When I'm auditing crypto code for security vulns, I pretty much ignore the
> crypto itself, I just use it as a beacon to where the mistakes are being made.


Is that ice shelf that’s about to break off headed your way?  Up here they're like
10% visible burg and 90% ice cube, sort of like crypto & key management.
__outer



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