Free email Crypto

[Dave Bird]

In article <199907301714.NAA22316@domains.invweb.net>, William H. Geiger
III <whgiii@openpgp.net> writes
>There is an old saying in the security field:
>    "No security is better than poor security"
>The reasoning behind this is if a user knows that his messages can be read
>by others he will be more cautious in what he writes while if he thinks he
>is "secure" but is really not then he may compromise himself.
>Giving the end user "warm fuzzies" and a false sense of security may sell
>products but it does a great disservice to the user.


 I thought, when I first read that, you had written "poor security 
 is the best security." But with a similar intent...  think that you
 are using physical locks, suck as crypto, why are good but by no
 means perfect. Therefore real security lies in secure behaviour;
 in not disclosing the existence of that which may be subject to
 attack, to those who don't need to know it.


-- 
   ^-^-^-@@-^-;-^   http://www.xemu.demon.co.uk/
        (..)__u     news:alt.smoking.mooses