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Ben Finney bignose-hates-spam at and-benfinney-does-too.id.au
Wed Jan 21 23:36:55 EST 2004 
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 04:35:07 GMT, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> At 2004-01-22T01:35:01Z, Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> writes:
>> The book "Security Engineering" by Ross Anderson is a good place to start
>> reading if you're interested in the subject.
> 
> I just finished "Practical Cryptography" by Niels Ferguson and Bruce
> Schneier.  It was almost enough to make me not want to bother trying.
> :-/

Security is much more than just cryptography.  Program reliability,
protection from bad input, protection from other misbehaving programs;
mitigation of *any* kind of risk or threat is the realm of security.

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