Adam Shostack writes:
Before anyone complains of a lack of crypto relevance to this, Bernie S is the guy who brought Clipper phones & actual clipper chips which he convinced Mykrotronix to send him to the HOPE conference in NYC two years ago.
Okay, but no one said that in the original message, and it still isn't clear how relevant this is. If someone like Tim or me were put in jail for, say, drunk driving, I'm not sure it would be proper news here.
I just heard that Perry and Tim were picked up last night for public intoxication, after a hard night of partying and crypto-brainstorming. OBCrypto: The arresting officer found in Perry's jacket pocket, a matchbook with what looked like mathematical symbols on it. He didn't know what the symbols were, so he turned it over to the DP department. I hear a couple of hours later, two "suits" showed up at the jail, asked to see the matchbook, took one look, turned pale, and spirited Perry and Tim out the back door of the jail. The police profess no knowledge of the whereabouts of Tim or Perry - they say they never heard of them. The arrest report has also apparantly disappeared. The last thing one of the "suits" said was something like "they know about the hole in RSA we found with the quantum computer" - or that's what was reportedly said. Something like that. -- Ed Carp, N7EKG Ed.Carp@linux.org, ecarp@netcom.com 214/993-3935 voicemail/digital pager 800/558-3408 SkyPager Finger ecarp@netcom.com for PGP 2.5 public key an88744@anon.penet.fi "Past the wounds of childhood, past the fallen dreams and the broken families, through the hurt and the loss and the agony only the night ever hears, is a waiting soul. Patient, permanent, abundant, it opens its infinite heart and asks only one thing of you ... 'Remember who it is you really are.'" -- "Losing Your Mind", Karen Alexander and Rick Boyes