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Article #515Re: REVIEW: "Personal Encryption Clearly Explained", Pete Loshin
From: James R. Bunch
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 00:00
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R H Braddam <rbraddam@aic-fl.com> wrote: [snip] : You don't have to know how to make a calculator chip to use a calculator. : You have to know what you want to do, but your objective is finding the : solution to an arithmetic problem that you could find without the : calculator. [more snip] You are not totally incorrect, at least so far as J. Random Luser is concerned. Lots of folks do just fine with "out of the box" systems. Trouble is, if they happen to get into an area where they encounter the limitations of their turnkey system they are clueless as to what to do next. Worse, they often don't know that they've been had by a bug in the software or an inherent limit of the system. Till they get that nasty letter from the IRS, or the lawyers hired by the customer who bought the system they used cad to design, or ... It's very important indeed to know the workings and limitations of the technology you use if you don't want to end up with crisped fingers. HTH -- ----------------------------- James R. Bunch "A Byte is a terrible thing to waste ... jbunch@primenet.com ... a MByte 1048576 times worse" PGP Key available via finger PGP Key fingerprint = B5 31 10 77 BF B0 FD B2 10 54 CB E6 13 7C 26 58 ------------------------------
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f7cbd,4adc0809a8044903 X-Google-Attributes: gidf7cbd,public X-Google-Thread: 10e503,4adc0809a8044903 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e503,public X-Google-Thread: 101175,4adc0809a8044903 X-Google-Attributes: gid101175,public X-Google-Thread: 135115,4adc0809a8044903 X-Google-Attributes: gid135115,public X-Google-Thread: 10aaab,4adc0809a8044903 X-Google-Attributes: gid10aaab,public X-Google-Thread: 109f69,4adc0809a8044903 X-Google-Attributes: gid109f69,public X-Google-Thread: fe810,4adc0809a8044903 X-Google-Attributes: gidfe810,public X-Google-Thread: ff723,4adc0809a8044903 X-Google-Attributes: gidff723,public From: "James R. Bunch" <jbunch@primenet.com> Subject: Re: REVIEW: "Personal Encryption Clearly Explained", Pete Loshin Date: 1998/10/22 Message-ID: <70neiu$3ka$1@nnrp02.primenet.com> X-Deja-AN: 403924559 References: <yhoX1.23585$re.4710394@HME2.newscontent-01.sprint.ca> <70n019$2tq$1@server.cntfl.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@globalcenter.net Organization: Primenet (602)416-7000 X-Posted-By: jbunch@206.165.6.205 (jbunch) Newsgroups: misc.books.technical,alt.books.reviews,alt.books,alt.books.technical,biz.books.technical,fido7.books.computing,alt.security,comp.security.misc,sci.crypt,talk.politics.crypto