[47415] in Cypherpunks
Re: THE RECIPROCAL ?......
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Olsen)
Wed Jan 17 16:05:04 1996
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 12:49:30 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
At 08:33 AM 1/17/96 -0600, you wrote:
>
>Terence Joseph Mallon writes:
> > "When people talk of encryption they use the word break, they are
> > approaching from one way but not the only way. I am at present trying the
> > reciprocal, that is, to mend."
>
>Why do I sometimes feel that personalities that once were drawn to
>design of perpetual motion machines or techniques for squaring circles
>may very soon flock to cryptographic "research"?
Actually, I think she was just fucking with his mind...
It sounds like an answer that I would give to a paranoid newbie, given half
the chance. (If I had thought of it...) "A mindfuck is a terrible thing to
waste."
I am sometimes surprised at the number of "They have broken PGP" stories I
keep hearing. People who know NOTHING about cryptography somehow "know"
that PGP has somehow been "broken". I wonder how these memes are getting
into the culture at large?
Alan Olsen -- alano@teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction
`finger -l alano@teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key
http://www.teleport.com/~alano/
"Is the operating system half NT or half full?"
