Re: What would you like to see in a book on cryptography for programme

2000-08-12 Thread James A. Donald
-- William Rowden writes: > > In the tempting-but-wrong category, one could include samples of > > the insecure systems that result when programmers with no > > cryptanalysis background create their own cryptographic > > algorithms. At 07:20 PM 8/11/2000 +, lcs Mixmaster Remailer wro

Re: What would you like to see in a book on cryptography for programme

2000-08-11 Thread Michael Paul Johnson
At 07:20 PM 8/11/00 +, lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote: >William Rowden writes: >> In the tempting-but-wrong category, one could include samples of the >> insecure systems that result when programmers with no cryptanalysis >> background create their own cryptographic algorithms. > >Yes, and let u

Re: What would you like to see in a book on cryptography for programme

2000-08-11 Thread lcs Mixmaster Remailer
William Rowden writes: > In the tempting-but-wrong category, one could include samples of the > insecure systems that result when programmers with no cryptanalysis > background create their own cryptographic algorithms. Yes, and let us hope that Michael Paul Johnson resists the temptation to plug