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Article: Encryption on way, but keep it secret.
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- Network World
- Article date:
- June 19, 2006
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Byline: Mike Rothman
I have a long and tattered history with cryptography. Ever since I learned about Bob and Alice I was smitten. I knew
it was important because cryptographic algorithms could be used to protect sensitive data and provide strong authentication
and nonrepudiation on transactions. I even started a company in 1998 to make the public-key flavor of cryptography easier
to use.
Yet at every turn, customers voted with their dollars to prove encryption and public key cryptography were just not interesting.
It was too hard to use, too expensive and too much work to integrate into the infrastructure. The folks ...