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Re: Schneier's source code

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tim werner)
Wed Apr 27 07:35:17 1994

Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 07:32:52 -0400
From: tim werner <werner@mc.ab.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com

>Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 16:20:22 -0700
>From: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
>
>Oh come on, all this talk about OCR makes it sound like nobody would ever
>be willing to just type in the code by hand. It only need be done once,
>and the task could easily be divided up for a group. The listings for any
>particular cipher just aren't that long.

After you do it, would you send me a copy? :-)

But seriously, isn't the point that you may make some silly typing mistake
that compiles anyway, but ruins the algorithm?

tw

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