Re: Dream OS

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From: Kazimir Kylheku
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 22:36

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In article <40njuk$388@sundog.tiac.net>,
Robert Krawitz <rlk@laraby.tiac.net> wrote:

>The more widespread a particular encryption technology is, the more
>vulnerable to attack.  This should be part of the driver for a
>particular class of filesystem.

Not true. The more widespread a particular encryption technology is,
the more people have a chance to poke holes in it, and the more
chance you have of finding out about a weakness before you are
affected by it.

One of the reasons you can trust PGP is that the source code is
freely and widely distributed, and is the subject of scrutiny by
encryption experts.

If one-time pads became a "widespread encryption technology",
would you lose confidence in them?
-- 
Finger c2a192@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca for PGP public key. Or contact
one of the public key servers -- the key id is 0xD3C7995D.

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From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600
Subject: Re: Dream OS
Date: 16 Aug 1995 15:36:56 -0700
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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