[51413] in Cypherpunks
Re: NYT on Crypto Bills
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Mon Mar 4 23:06:13 1996
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr. Dimitri Vulis)
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 22:54:03 -0500 (EST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <LuJakD41w165w@bwalk.dm.com> from "Dr. Dimitri Vulis" at Mar 4, 96 07:14:21 pm
Dr. Dimitri Vulis wrote:
| Yes - the Markoff quote is factually incorrect. I'm sure he knows better
| than this. Must be the Times editing.
This mistake has popped up multiple times in his work. I'm not sure
he's aware of it.
| What he probably meant (and perhaps wrote) was that the cyphers used in
| business for centuries could be broken by governments. This started
| changing only after WW I. Wasn't the Enigma marketed to businesses?
Yes, the initail (failed) marketing was to business. Only
when the Nazi's started buying did sales start to take off.
Adam
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"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
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