Re: Barcode Email

From: Tom St Denis (tomstdenis_at_gmail.com)
Date: 07/26/05 

Date: 26 Jul 2005 06:31:26 -0700

Ari Silversteinn wrote:
> Joe, have you ever sold anything to the public? I don't mean this in a
> condescending sense, but have you? I have and I can tell you that they
> could care less about AES or XYZ or whatever initials you want to throw
> around. Sure, I could go for it with 512 AES but to what reason?
>
> The barcode represents, bad or good, stealth to the public, it represents
> data hidden.

It represents mediocracy. You educate your customers not play to their
level. Avoiding proper crypto because it's hard to sell is like
avoiding Calculus because it's hard to teach...

> That cliché works, fresh isn't necessarily better. Don't dismiss it until
> you have tried it.

A barcode is just an encoding method. Yes it's a cool idea. No it's
not a way to encrypt data.

Why not just use AES [in an appropriate mode with a MAC] and then
encode that in a 2d barcode? Why must it be one way or your way?

Tom

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