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From: desj@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (David desJardins)
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: Re: WWII Cryptography --> WWIII
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Date: Sun, 16-Mar-86 06:06:56 EST
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In article <1812@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.ARPA writes:
>Sometimes nominally secure systems break down or are misused.

   Substitute "always" for "sometimes" in the above.  The most difficult
task in introducing any technology (and from what I have heard cryptography
is no exception) is getting people to use it correctly (or, in practice,
designing it to be very difficult to misuse).  Even one-time pads are
vulnerable to this!

   -- David desJardins