Why Cryptosystems Fail ftp site

• To: adam@bwh.harvard.edu (Adam Shostack)
• Subject: Why Cryptosystems Fail ftp site
• From: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
• Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 12:03:34 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: bsy@microsoft.com, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
• In-Reply-To: <199510101636.MAA11844@leonardo.bwh.harvard.edu> from "Adam Shostack" at Oct 10, 95 12:36:04 pm

| are most likely to read, ie, the specifications. As Ross Anderson
| points out in his 'Why Cryptosystems Fail' paper, the assumption by
| cryptographers that the programmers will know how to write security

	Quite a few people have asked me where to find this paper:

ftp://ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/wcf.ps.Z

	Also well worth reading is his 'Robustness Principles for
Public Key Protocols' presented at Crypto '95.

ftp://ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/robustness.ps.Z


Adam

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