[Cryptography] Anonymous rendezvous (was Business opportunities in crypto)

Richard Outerbridge outer at interlog.com
Tue Apr 20 17:13:13 EDT 2021


> On 2021-04-19 (109), at 23:58:29, Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill at hallambaker.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 9:34 PM Richard Outerbridge <outer at interlog.com <mailto:outer at interlog.com>> wrote:
> Inline.  Lots of cuts.
>  
> Once I was approached by a VP who had had just had an epiphany.  ”The cryptography is the easy part!” he exclaimed
> excitedly.  ”The key management is what kills you!” he continued, having had just realised.
> 
> I realized that the public key infrastructure was the hard part in 1995
> 
> Took me another 25 years to realize that managing the public key was the easy part. The real challenge is managing the private keys

And thu$ Fiat tru$t is where mo$t of the ri$k i$ ?
__outer

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