Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
> It is fun to try to dream up these methods. Everybody wants to be a hacker
> and be able to get away with something. Security research has been trying
> to dream up these solutions for decades, and then spent decades cracking
> them. It is very unlikely that someone on this list will dream up an
> uncrackable scheme in a few days when security experts have failed to do so
> in the history of security. As with any technical field, like AI,
> nanotechnology, cryonics, life-extension, space travel, stock-market
> investing, quantum physics, it always looks easier at first glance. The
> more you get into the technical details, the more complicated it becomes.
>
I agree that cryptography should be left to the experts, where the above still
happens anyway. You do realize my post did not try to come up with anything new
(one time codes are already known to be uncrackable). I wanted to point out
that new laws could not put the cat back in the bag.
-Ken
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