[82437] in Cypherpunks
Re: Comparing Cryptographic Key Sizes II
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Wed Jun 25 01:28:57 1997
In-Reply-To: <199706242233.XAA00222@server.test.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 00:25:13 -0400
To: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
At 23:33 +0100 6/24/97, Adam Back wrote:
>I don't think we can explain it any more technically and expect it to
>be useful to a journalist.
Um, some of us journalists have *gasp* taken computer science classes,
programmed in machine code, crafted compression routines, written our own
Unix shells, etc.
Now, I don't want to start a "who's the geekiest geek" contest, since y'all
will win hands-down -- but I want to point out that while we may not be
crypto-whizzes, not all of us are entirely clueless either.
-Declan
