From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 16:37:29 +0800
To: Wei Dai <weidai@eskimo.com>
Subject: Re: Contracts, Responsibilities, and Drug-Dispensing
Message-ID: <199607100517.WAA07051@mail.pacifier.com>
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At 05:33 PM 7/9/96 -0700, Wei Dai wrote:
>On Tue, 9 Jul 1996, Bill Frantz wrote:
>
>> ObCrypto: When may a minor child say no to PAK (Parental Access to Keys)?
>
>Interesting threat model... What can one do in the total absense of
>physical security?  We've talked about mental cryptography before, but I
>think we agreed that it isn't very practical.  Perhaps security through
>obscurity is a better solution here, since many parents are less computer
>literate than their children.

All the kids need to do is to put their secrets in a file named "README.TXT" 
and put it in the root directory!

Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com