Anthra Norell wrote: > From: "Paul Rubin" <"http://phr.cx"@NOSPAM.invalid> >>...... >>Since good encryption schemes that don't have significant performance >>penalties are widely available, why mess with a crap scheme EVER? Why >>use a solution that "might or might not be adequate" when you can use >>one that's definitely ok? >>...... > > Why indeed?---Why run a marathon?
To demonstrate your physical supremacy over your inferiors. > Why have kids? Because you forgot to wear protection. > Why shave? Your wife insists? Mine does... > Why play chess? To demonstrate your intellectual supremacy over your inferiors. > Why sprinkle the lawn? Too much beer and there's a line-up to use the john? > Or as my friend Sergio's favorite line went: Why you > jerks cook your own muck when there are so many good restaurants in town? To demonstrate your culinary supremacy over your inferiors? > His was definitely the best when it went out of business. (Hmm... so is my business doing merely "well" if it's losing money?) Back to Paul's question then: why use an unreliable and probably-useless-for-all-but-spawning-lengthy-but-educational-threads encryption method when there are relatively reliable and, uh, less discussed and non-edifying, uh... well, you get the picture. ;-) -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list