At 09:55 PM 12/25/00 -0500, dmolnar wrote: > > >On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Eric Cordian wrote: > >> Perhaps next year will be better. I'm almost begining to feel >> that Cryptology has achieved the status of a "Mature Science." > >It's my impression that mature sciences don't have the same kind of >foundational or engineering problems cryptography does. Infosec is essentially a branch of 'safety systems' (see Leveson, et al), where you also look at all possible consequences of failure. The same problem ---the strength of the system is the strength of the weakest element--- dominates both arts.
