[48719] in Cypherpunks
Re: Denning's misleading statements
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carl Ellison)
Tue Jan 30 16:03:42 1996
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 15:51:24 -0400
To: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
From: cme@cybercash.com (Carl Ellison)
Cc: Cypherpunks@toad.com
At 20:49 1/27/96, Timothy C. May wrote:
>I've never met Dorothy Denning, so I hesitate to characterize her as a
>villainess. But certainly she's the only noted cryptographer I know of
>who's gone so far out on a limb to defend a position the vast majority of
>computer scientists, civil libertarians, and cryptographers scoff at.
I've met some others -- most noteably Silvio Micali [but he has a financial
interest in that position]. However, DERD is the only one I've met
who is all the way over on Freeh's side.
- Carl
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