Bram Cohen wrote: > > On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Ben Laurie wrote: > > > > Since we're in hair-splitting mode, I should point out that "prevents > > the denial of an act" is not equivalent to a "negation that something is > > false". Of course, logically, it comes to the same thing, but then, so > > does "assertion that something is true". > > Of course, the idea that you could 'prevent the denial of an act' is > completely wrong. The explanation "All this fancy-schmancy crypto stuff is > bullshit" is pretty much universally applicable. I have to agree that actually doing stuff with crypto is substantially more useful (and interesting) than trying to prove things with it. Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html Coming to ApacheCon Europe 2000? http://apachecon.com/
