[82533] in Cypherpunks
Re: Comparing Cryptographic Key Sizes II
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Fri Jun 27 02:10:54 1997
In-Reply-To: <v03007829afd64d414288@[168.161.105.191]>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 22:12:20 -0700
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>, Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
At 9:25 PM -0700 6/24/97, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>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.
>
>...
>
>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.
I'm not worried about the journalist-with-a-clue. I am worried about Joe
citizen (the restless "sheepie"). I believe deep in my heart that if Joe
citizen understood the issue, he'd say, "No way am I going to let some
government bastard paw through my personal business." Based on this
belief, I applaud Adam's attempt to explain the crypto issues in simple
language.
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