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Crypto Snake Oil
An anonymous reader writes "Luther Martin of Voltage Security has published an article about the perception of cryptography today with regards to quality and honesty in vendors. From the article: 'Products that implement cryptography are probably credence goods. It requires expensive and uncommon skills to verify that data is really being protected by the use of cryptography, and most people cannot easily distinguish between very weak and very strong cryptography. Even after you use cryptography, you are never quite sure that it is protecting you like it is supposed to do.'"
OMF,
Why did you bring up religion? I thought you were obsessed with math?
regards,
gerry [who imagines he enjoy math, too]
'Insightful?' Shouldn't this be modded troll or at least off-topic? There's nothing about this post that as anything to do with Snake Oil or Cryptography. It's just begging for flames. I thought slashdot was about evaluting the world by what it does and not what it says it does. If that's true then blanket statements and generalizations about religion would be left 'out there,' and we'd stick to the facts. But instead many slashdotters are so religous (spiteful, rude, hateful and intolerent) about being anti-religous that it's quite hard to see the difference between the nutjobs that claim 'God hates fags' and the nutjobs that claim 'religions are bads!!'
Zen doesn't teach these things. Nor did Jesus. Don't throw out the real followers with the bad ones. Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
I dislike the average judgementalist religous types as much as the next slashdotter but comments like these in completely different forums simply shouldn't be here, let alone modded 'insightful.' There's at least one mod who isn't doing his job, lest that'd have been modded 'off-topic.'
Good. Cheap. Fast. Pick Two.
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