At 11:20 AM -0600 on 3/19/00, Bilgates Remailer wrote:
> Gotta rev up the consulting biz, don't we ?
>
> How about "I broke all reduced-to-zero-rounds AES ciphers" ?
>
> Or some equally highly relevant trashing that fills time and flashes the
> name ?
Not one to trash either the trasher or trashee, and I'm sure Bruce has his
scientific heart in the right place and all, but the above response to his
recent posting is interesting, and not in that Bruce is releasing these
analyses so soon after his "publicity attack" stump speech, but that he did
the "publicity attack" stump speech at all.
Pots and kettles come to mind, certainly, or at least swords cutting both ways.
The irony being, of course, that publicity is exactly how you get some
people to keep from doing stupid things with crypto code, and, of course
buy your product, and no amount of shaving the distinctions fine enough to
stand on the right side of same seems work the way you want as the trashing
above exemplifies.
It's obviously no fun when clueful people, marketing departments or no,
have public pissfights like this, and we should also give ourselves a
little slack for our publicity, marketing or no.
Cheers,
RAH
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