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The Crypto Gardening Guide and Planting Tips

Posted by michael on Wednesday February 5, 2003 @01:54AM from the nous-devons-cultiver-nos-jardins dept.

ncostigan writes "Peter Gutmann of cryptlib fame has written a very readable paper on real-world constraints for cryptographers, and points out problems that their designs will run into when attempts are made to deploy them. Also included is a motivational list of extremely uncool problems that implementors have been building ad-hoc solutions for since no formal ones exist."

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Holes by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-05 02:09 · Score: -1, Troll

All crypto systems have deep known holes [microsoft.com] that anyone can exploit.
Re:Bastards! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-05 02:14 · Score: -1, Troll

Plant them in your own body[health.com].

BTW, which thing grows when you plant a bomb?
Re:Glossary by t · 2003-02-05 06:45 · Score: 0, Troll

Since your entire comment was redundant you should have similarly refrained from posting.