[Cialug] July Meeting: ComSec Strategies

[Morris Dovey]

On 7/19/13 4:46 PM, Nicolai wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:28:11AM -0500, Morris Dovey wrote:
>> On 7/18/13 12:10 AM, Scott Yates wrote:
>>> I would urge you to be very careful with custom encryption.  Coding strong
>>> encryption is EXTREMELY challenging to do without leaving holes or weakness
>>> in the implementation.
>>
>> Agreed. Fun tho. :o)
>
> That's the way to look at it!  Writing crypto code is super fun, but for
> all but a small number of living people, we're just writing toy ciphers.

It’s an amusement in a not unfamiliar context. Anyone who can find my 
old (outdated) online resume is invited to speculate as to how I kept 
busy in 1978.

The toys I’m writing are intended to illustrate Newton’s Third Law. :-)