Re: Long RSA keys

From: Karsten W. Rohrbach (karsten@rohrbach.de)
Date: 08/30/02 

Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 02:05:10 +0200
From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>

Perry E. Metzger(perry@piermont.com)@2002.08.29 16:03:03 +0000:
[...]
> If you think that you have something new and exciting to tell me that
> I've never heard of before, check if it has been published in Crypto
> or Eurocrypt or something first. If you don't know enough to read
> those conference proceedings, you don't know enough to have an
> intelligent opinion on the cost of building a machine to run djb's NFS
> factoring ideas.

nice attitude. sounds a little bit like "640k is enough for everyone",
etc. understanding as much as to conceive a certain concept, or at least
to work out an "intelligent opinion" is based on thinking, cognitive
processes, not just being able to read and understand technoid gibberish.

2002, not 1972. time to re-think certain concepts. together, not against
each other. ;-)

i clearly see your experience, your knowledge. you're in the business for
quite a while. clinging to your experience so tightly, evolving hardline
thinking, such as above, might prove to be an obstacle, though. new
inventions, technologies, just came into existence through people who
got their own ego out of the way, and did what they envisioned.

regards,
/k 

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