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Re: The Beer Bottle Cipher (some fun summer reading for you...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Thu Jul 1 19:27:59 1999
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 14:51:42 -0700
To: Martin Minow <minow@pobox.com>, Ron Rivest <rivest@theory.lcs.mit.edu>,
cryptography@c2.net
From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <v03102800b39ff997e6c0@[17.202.41.147]>
[I couldn't resist. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. --Perry]
>At 12:07 -0400 1999.06.30, Ron Rivest described the Beer Bottle Cypher,
>asking:
>>
>>The actual security of this cipher seems to be an open question... Can it
>>be broken?
>>
>Martin Minow minow@pobox.com replied
>Have you tried getting an export license for it?
Does it pass the Reinheitsgebot, or is it wimpy American beer?
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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