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Re: I'll show you mine if you show me, er, mine

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.A. Terranson)
Thu Mar 3 19:20:48 2005

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Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:42:37 -0600 (CST)
From: "J.A. Terranson" <measl@mfn.org>
To: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com, cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net,
	rah@shipwright.com
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On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Peter Gutmann wrote:

> (Either this is a really bad idea or the details have been mangled by the
> Register).

No, it's just a really bad idea.  A small group of us looked at this a few
weeks ago when it was announced, and while none of us are professional
cryptographers, we all thought this was just, well, silly.

-- 
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J.A. Terranson
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shit...because they have to type everything with their noses."

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