Practice Cryptography!
Even with all of the cryptologic and cryptographic technology that has existed in the world for the past 60 years, we still don't really know what encryption is good for or how to use it -- or, more importantly, why it's important. Maybe it's time for people and coders to actually start practicing how to use it, like any other skill.Saturday, March 04, 2006
Hmmm... I should probably go back to ground zero and identify precisely all the individual cryptographic dogmas that I'm attacking, and more importantly which ones I'm willing (from my own experience) to accept as useful building blocks.
New encryption verusus old encryption
New random number generation versus old random number generation
new network protocols versus old network protocols.
New encodings versus old encodings
New application and protocol building blocks versus old application and protocol building blocks.
(And once again, I bemoan Netscape: Why, oh why, did you have to use X.509 instead of coming up with something that could be USEFUL?)
New encryption verusus old encryption
New random number generation versus old random number generation
new network protocols versus old network protocols.
New encodings versus old encodings
New application and protocol building blocks versus old application and protocol building blocks.
(And once again, I bemoan Netscape: Why, oh why, did you have to use X.509 instead of coming up with something that could be USEFUL?)
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