Re: 2 forwarded messages...DNSEXT discussion of Day and Kaminsky

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 06:26:41PM -0500, Dean Anderson wrote:

> Software has trustworthiness, so it has character. So patches have
> character, too.  If you don't get that, then you aren't inherently
> trustworthy. You may not have done anything wrong _yet_, but that would
> only be because you haven't had the opportunity. If you don't even see
> the lines between right and wrong, you are destined to cross them on the
> wrong side sooner or later because you are blind to the distinction.

You miss my point yet again.

But I am through having non-technical discussions with you, Dean; it's
simply not worth my time, nor that of the other readers on this list.

If you want to discuss actual facts, I am fine with that. In particular,
I have posted analyses of the birthday attack math showing that your
numbers are wrong, and that the attack scenario Paul posted is not
actually worse under qmerge. If you think there is a factual error in
either of those analyses, please point it out for the good of the
software and the list.

For your reference, the messages I am referring to can be found here:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.djbdns/13820

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.djbdns/13817

-Peff