Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to saving the Internet from the NSA

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Fri, 06 September 2013 05:00 UTC

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> This assumes, of course, that current crypto technology
> (ciphers, anyway) is sufficient, which Schneier seems to
> think is the case.

side discussion wonders whether bruce may be a bit on the
pollyanna side on this aspect.

randy