[45686] in Cypherpunks
Re: The Problem With Blaze And Weinstein
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Wed Dec 20 17:10:26 1995
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 Dec 1995 20:18:43 GMT."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 16:17:58 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
ECafe Anonymous Remailer writes:
> I'm not trying to start a flame war.
Really?
> They aren't cypherpunks.
>
> Neither has come out against GAK.
You obviously have never spoken to Matt.
> Blaze even does "research" on GAK.
No, he does research on private escrow. Thats not the same thing as
GAK. Private escrow is sensible -- you don't want just one person with
the keys to, say, the personel records. What happens if they get hit
by a car?
> DO THEY HAVE YOU ALL SO IMPRESSED WITH THEIR MASTERS DEGREES THAT
> YOUR AFRAID TO LOOK CLOSELY?
Actually, Matt has a Ph.D. from Princeton.
> WHY IS EVERYONE SO QUICK TO DEFEND THESE PEOPLE?
Maybe I defend Matt because I think I know him pretty well -- we met
when he showed up at the Columbia U. computer science department in
the mid 1980s, and among other things we shared an office at Bellcore
for a year or two, and he's about as cryptography and privacy friendly
a person as you can find.
Maybe I defend him because you are likely an idiot who's never so much
as chatted with him.
Maybe I'm bored.
Who knows.
Perry
