Kaminsky indicated he doesn't buy the conclusions made in the crypto researchers' paper. "I don't mean to be too hard on this paper, which again, has some excellent data and analysis inside. I've been strongly advocating for the collection of data in security, as I think we operate more on assumption and rumor than we'd like to admit. The flip side is that we must take care not to fit our data to those assumptions."
Ellen Messmer is senior editor at Network World, an IDG publication and website, where she covers news and technology trends related to information security.
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