Re: Encrypted Swap (random off-topic snippet)

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 07:24:50PM -0700, Dr. Kelsey Hudson wrote:
> I really shouldn't pollute the list like this.

	Perfect.  :-)

	It's what we, sometimes, refer to as "rubber hose security"
and what Bruce Schneier has been heard to refer to as "rubber hose
cryptography".  You grap someone and beat the #$@#$# out of them with
a rubber hose till they tell you what they want to know.  The BEST we
can hope for is to raise the secuity to the point where they (whoever
"THEY" are) can do no better than that.  :-/  If we HAVEN'T raised it
that far, we still have more we can, and should, do.

>  Kelsey Hudson                                           [e-mail]
>  Software Engineer
>  Compendium Technologies, Inc                               [phone]
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	Mike
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