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Ask Security/Cryptography Expert Paul Kocher

Posted by Roblimo on from the lkas;dkl9046-is-how-he-says-hello dept.

Paul Kocher is unquestionably one of the highest-profile computer and network security experts around. He's president of Cryptography Research, Inc. and one of the architects of SSL 3.0. The floor is now open. Please try not to ask questions that can be answered with a few minutes' worth of online research. We'll post Paul's answers to 10 of the highest-moderated questions soon after he gets them back to us. Update: 03/13 18:18 GMT by M : Let's try this one more time, this time with feeling.

6 of 371 comments (clear)

  1. Is this a good businessmodel? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    1: Write free software.
    2: ?
    3: Profit!

  2. Try this on for size. by viper21 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Mr. Kocher,

    What does this say:

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  3. use "slashdot". by scum-o · · Score: -1, Redundant

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  4. maximum effective strength of encryption? by nenolod · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What is the maximum effective strength of encryption? By this I mean, what is the best cipher strength that provides a good tradeoff between speed and security?

    Encryption is good, but can be slow, so I'm just wondering.

  5. Re:redundancy is key by spells · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Umm, this is slashdot, right?

  6. Re:mod flaw? by Ospeovedizer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I agree that an improvement could be made. No warning was given, I just noticed that under the line where it says I posted a reply, it said "undoing moderation to comment #123456" (what really bugs me is that it also undid 2 other moderations that I had made in that story). Oh well. There's more to life than Slashdot, right? Right?

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