At 9:08 AM -0400 4/17/02, Russell Nelson wrote: >The union of the two sets of "cryptography users" and "paranoid >people" is necessarily non-empty. Who would bother to use >cryptography sans a threat model? And if you've got a non-empty >threat model, then by definition you're paranoid.
Nah. Paranoia is an unreasonable fear of persecution or distrust of others. There are threat models which justify the use of cryptography that are entirely reasonable. For example, using TLS to encrypt a session with your bank is a reasonable precaution against someone snooping your finances. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
