On 2014-10-07 09:07:19 +0100 (+0100), ianG wrote: [...] > The value of cryptography is limited by the applicability of its > benefit to the real world. We can probably agree that there is a > valid science in theoretical cryptography for elegance sake and > pedagogical purposes. But almost all traffic on this list is in > the domain of the practical, the useful. [...]
I merely asserted that the "any knew[sic] info on shellshock?" post was not particularly on topic (the author would have found more timely answers with a search engine, and there are also plenty of mailing lists to which I also subscribe which present a more appropriate venue and where those conversations were already taking place). Clearly what it was good for is restarting the perennial idiot-architect analogy meta-discussion. I knew this guy who built a mailing list out of stone with a large steel gate, but used straw in the mortar. Every time there was a flamewar, the mortar was set ablaze and the list toppled over. Clearly the money spent on the iron gate would have been better invested in cryptocurrency. -- Jeremy Stanley _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
