Longer or more meetings?

Eric Rescorla EKR <ekr@rtfm.com>
08 Dec 2002 16:13:21 -0800


Marshall Rose <mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us> writes:

> > You mean like the requirement that it actually provide security?
> 
> and if someone could every provide a definition of "security", then the world
> would be a better place.
It's hard to imagine any definition of security which WEP could meet.

> well, i agree that dissecting WEP isn't a good topic for this list. but here's
> one last datapoint: i recall reading a paper by one of the WEP guys which
> basically confessed surprise at all the bad press they were getting since they
> weren't interested in solving the problem that they were getting hammered on.

I'm not too surprised by this. It's not clear to me that the WEP guys
EVER managed to understand the cryptography well enough to understand
what the issues were, even after the papers were published.

-Ekr

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[Eric Rescorla                                   ekr@rtfm.com]
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