On 22 Aug 2000, Martin Peikert wrote:
Johannes Geiger
wrote: doing. Did you ever try to explain cryptography to a secretary? If you would
Thomas Biege
wrote, quoting the above: only an idiot would do. ;)
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I cannot agree to that. If you really have understood how something works, you should be able to explain it to an _interested_ audience. Maybe they don't understand it the first time you expain it, but then they will ask you questions - and there are, in my opinion, only a few stupid questions but a lot of stupid answers like "Only an idiot would not understand what I say."
In principle I agree, but ...
You can call me idiot, I _did_ explain secretaries some crypto stuff. You only have to find the right words - that's the challenge - that they can understand you.
The real challenge is to find somebody who is interested... In their opinions its their boss who is responsible for security, and downtimes created by crashes or intrusions are paid cigarette breaks. -I know these are prejudices, but sometimes right. Michael Schmidt Icewolf