[79900] in Cypherpunks
Re: The War is Underway (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent Crispin)
Tue May 13 03:47:22 1997
Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 16:05:50 -0700
From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
To: cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Reply-To: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
On Sun, May 11, 1997 at 01:18:43PM -0700, Lucky Green wrote:
> At 04:10 PM 5/10/97 -0700, Kent Crispin wrote:
>
> >Hence the value of the "Crypto is Cool" approach. A valuable addition
> >would be crypto packages designed for high school kids. All my many
> >nieces and nephews are on the net...
>
> I usually don't reply to these kind of posts, but since you have mentioned
> this before
Actually, you must be confusing me with someone else -- I can't, to
my recollection, remember ever having said anything about this
before. (Of course, you could always go back in the archives and check.)
I was just responding to the idea mention by someone else (except
I think they worded it "ciphers are cool" or something like that).
> and since you obviously still don't deem it appropriate to get
> yourself up to speed by reading the archives, your idea has been discussed
> and tried.
With a memory like mine (and yours too, apparently) reading the
archives would do no good -- I can't remember a thousandth of all the
stuff I read, anyway.
> People won't use crypto unless it is either transparent, meaning put there
> *for* them by the OS vendor/application developer or because the see a need
> for using it. The few fanatics that use crypto because "it is cool" are
> inconsequential when the objective is bringing crypto to the masses.
I guess we are doomed, then.
--
Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited",
kent@songbird.com the thief he kindly spoke...
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