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Friday, August 12, 2005

Humans

Valery shared that wonderful quote from Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World last week:

Humans are incapable of securely storing high-quality cryptographic keys, and they have unacceptable speed and accuracy when performing cryptographic operations. (They are also large, expensive to maintain, difficult to manage, and they pollute environment. It is astonishing that these devices continue to be manufactured and deployed. But they are sufficiently pervasive that we must design our protocols around their limitations.)

And today this comic by Scott Adams =):

Posted On Friday, August 12, 2005 12:14 PM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ Personal ]

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