Current Crypto Trends with Bruce Schneier

Saint Aardvark writes "SecurityFocus has published an interview with Bruce Schneier. Fascinating stuff, especially the level-headed assessments of the NSA, spam and the impact of full disclosure: 'Q: Since most crypto protocols on the internet, such as SSL or SSH, uses public-keys to build a secure channel, wouldn't a unexpected public disclosure create a chaos on the internet ? A: No. Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet. Here's an example. Go to Amazon.com. Buy a book without using SSL. Watch the total lack of chaos.'"

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[Saint Aardvark]

OP here -- that link to Schneier's blog should be:

http://www.schneier.com/blog

Sorry about that!

Wrong URL

[eyegor]

It's http://www.schneier.com/

Re:Article text, ROT13'd for the paranoid

[iMaple]

In case, the article is /.ed ROT13 the encrypted text to get back the article :)
ROT13 en/decoder

Re:Article text, ROT13 for the paranoid

[Dark Coder]

For the uninitiated... ROT13 encoder/decoder is available as a FireFox plugin over at MNenhy

Re:Nothing constructive from Schnier anymore

[snorklewacker]

> So basically he's telling me to live in a shack in the woods like the Unabomber if I want security.

Go read "Beyond Fear". That's precisely the opposite of what he's saying. He's saying security is not a binary all-or-nothing thing, and that for the vast majority of people, there really is such a thing as "secure enough". Not that the current state of the art is anywhere close to that, but that it's not some platonic ideal, it's in fact quite reachable now.

Re:Article text, ROT13'd for the paranoid

[Anonymous Coward]

Your version:

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A slightly more efficient version:

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