On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:56:16PM -0500, david nicol wrote: > > For challenge response to work it has to be annoying to lots of people. > > Anything that stops it being annoying will stop it working. That's why > > it is broken. > > Challenge-response, BY ITSELF ONLY, suffers from that problem. When > combined with other methods, CR is useful, and is _less annoying_ > then alternatives, such as requiring all correspondents to install PGP > for instance. Every single one of these alternatives is dangerously insane. I don't think "It's better than hurling yourself into a meat grinder" is a good rationale for doing something. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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