[messaging] Are we pursuing real solutions for security?

Tony Arcieri bascule at gmail.com
Tue Mar 11 10:26:32 PDT 2014


On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
<dkg at fifthhorseman.net>wrote:

> Short Authentication Strings have potentially severe problems in
> anything other than a human→human synchronous communications
> environment


This is the only use case of fingerprints I'm considering in this thread.
I'm not talking about their use by machines in e.g. cryptographic protocols

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Tony Arcieri
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