Lying and RIP

[Michael Bacon]

At the risk of prolonging the biblical references, and with no other
religious education than that I could not avoid at school, and with the
greatest temerity, I draw attention to verses Matthew 7:8 to 7:10:

For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him
that knocketh it shall be opened. 
Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a
stone? 
Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?

These surely imply access to and understanding of that which is found, and
address the question of 'wrong' keys or 'wrong' decryptions.

Michael (Streaky) Bacon
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The views expressed herein are my own and
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Padgett 0sirius [mailto:padgett@gdi.net]
> Sent: 17 March 2000 04:51
> To: ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: Lying and RIP
> 
> 
> >Sadly, Jesus himself seems to have been a supporter of Jack Straw's
> >approach to cryptography:
> 
> I disagree. "he who seeks, finds;" does not imply or require that the
> finding imputes understanding of what was found. What this 
> really seems to
> say is "Security by obscurity will fail".
> 
>       	A. Padgett Peterson, P.E., CISSP: Cybernetic 
> Psychophysicist
>  Anti-Virus, Cryptographics, & Antique Radio Researcher
> http://www.freivald.org/~padgett/index.html
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