February 02, 2000

Cryptographers can't keep secrets
By Owen Thomas, Editor
Redherring.com, January 18, 1999

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA - Make no mistake: The RSA Data Security Conference that opened Sunday in San Jose is more about sharing secrets than keeping them.

The venerable cryptography conference still offers programmers and sysadmins the promise of learning something about the systems that protect your data. But as the halls ll up with sales and marketing execs - some of whom apparently need tutorials like Sunday's "Crypto 101" - it becomes harder to know who's got the goods, and who's just offering spin.

We managed to track down a few hard-core techies, though - and here's what they had to say.

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See http://www.redherring.com/insider/1999/0118/news-rsa.html for the rest of the story.

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