Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 02:05:10 +0200 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> Cc: mipam@ibb.net, Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Stefan_Kr=FCger?= <skrueger@europe.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org, tech-security@netbsd.org, misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Long RSA keys Message-ID: <20020830020510.A76963@mail.webmonster.de> In-Reply-To: <8765xtzb48.fsf@snark.piermont.com>; from perry@piermont.com on Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 04:03:03PM -0400 References: <8765xtzb48.fsf@snark.piermont.com>
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--6TrnltStXW4iwmi0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Perry E. Metzger(perry@piermont.com)@2002.08.29 16:03:03 +0000: [...] > If you think that you have something new and exciting to tell me that > I've never heard of before, check if it has been published in Crypto > or Eurocrypt or something first. If you don't know enough to read > those conference proceedings, you don't know enough to have an > intelligent opinion on the cost of building a machine to run djb's NFS > factoring ideas. nice attitude. sounds a little bit like "640k is enough for everyone", etc. understanding as much as to conceive a certain concept, or at least to work out an "intelligent opinion" is based on thinking, cognitive processes, not just being able to read and understand technoid gibberish. 2002, not 1972. time to re-think certain concepts. together, not against each other. ;-) i clearly see your experience, your knowledge. you're in the business for quite a while. clinging to your experience so tightly, evolving hardline thinking, such as above, might prove to be an obstacle, though. new inventions, technologies, just came into existence through people who got their own ego out of the way, and did what they envisioned. regards, /k --=20 > UNiX *IS* user friendly. It's just selective about who it's friends are. WebMonster Community Project -- Reliable and quick since 1998 -- All on BSD http://www.webmonster.de/ - ftp://ftp.webmonster.de/ - http://www.rohrbach.= de/ GnuPG: 0xDEC948A6 D/E BF11 83E8 84A1 F996 68B4 A113 B393 6BF4 DEC9 48A6 REVOKED: 0x2964BF46 D/E 42F9 9FFF 50D4 2F38 DBEE DF22 3340 4F4E 2964 BF46 REVOKED: 0x4C44DA59 RSA F9 A0 DF 91 74 07 6A 1C 5F 0B E0 6B 4D CD 8C 44 My mail is GnuPG signed - Unsigned ones might be bogus - http://www.gnupg.o= rg/ Please do not remove my address from To: and Cc: fields in mailing lists. 1= 0x --6TrnltStXW4iwmi0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9bra2s5Nr9N7JSKYRAuIoAKCHOnrxpW0nWz0t/KwObQJ4ljUGtQCgrksA 1Xg1XsGX28O8x83IdEIAgcY= =R6ln -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6TrnltStXW4iwmi0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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