[Cryptography] People vs AI

[Peter Gutmann]

arxlight <arxlight at arx.li> writes:

>It must have been within hours of that when we had the conversation about the
>strange single point of failure it was to have a substantial slice of the
>world's crypto (in the original sense of the word) expertise on the same boat
>in the immediate vicinity of a semi-active volcano during a total eclipse.

Something similar happened at Usenix Security in (from memory) San Antonio,
where the first major flight out the next day was full of conference speakers,
organisers, attendees.  Someone commented that "if this flight crashes, it'll
set Internet security back ten years".

Peter.