Distributed Security

A reader writes: ""Where Schneier had sought one overarching technical fix, hard experience had taught him the quest was illusory." A long and detailed article at The Atlantic Online on why Bruce Schneier has come down from his strong cryptography tower to preach the gospel of small scale, ductile security against the popular approach of broad scale, often high tech security that often proves to be very brittle."

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RSA Wars

[DarkHelmet]

During the 1990s Schneier was a field marshal in the disheveled army of computer geeks, mathematicians, civil-liberties activists, and libertarian wackos that--in a series of bitter lawsuits that came to be known as the Crypto Wars

Luke: You were in the Crypto Wars?

Schneier: I was once an RSA Knight like your father. He was the best Composite Factorer in the whole galaxy... I see you have written programs that factor large numbers yourself. He was a good friend. Before the Dark Times, before The Empire.

Luke:What happened to my father?

Schneier:A young RSA Knight by the name of Len Adleman betrayed and murdered your father. Adleman was seduced by the Dark Side of the Force