Message-Id: <9310070630.AA17189@longs.lance.colostate.edu> Subject: academician seeks critique of cryptographic paper Date: Thu, 07 Oct 93 00:30:51 -0600
Richard, This reminds me of what I had to go through to get approved to get married in the Roman Catholic Church. I ended up having to say, for the record, "I have no intention of using mechanical methods of birth control" (pre-safe-sex days) when what they wanted was for me to say I would avoid all birth control. I'm now ashamed I stooped to that non-confrontive statement (especially since the marriage didn't last :-). I should have said, "No, I don't accept your view of birth control and have every intention of using it." At least I did say that my fiancee was on the pill and we intended to continue using it. I would be happy to review your paper and to suggest others who might be good reviewers. Furthermore, I have no intention of violating the export laws (even though I disagree with them and work very hard to change them). However, I do not grant the NSA the power to control the publication of theoretical information. I have published papers on cryptology in the international press, without offering the NSA the chance to review what I write ahead of time, and I intend to continue doing so. They have their internal publications, no doubt, and we have our public ones. I don't tell them what to publish internally and I will not allow them to tell me what I can publish out here in the public. That is my policy, for my own writing. If you send me your paper to review, I will not disseminate it. That's a matter of respecting your wishes -- not the NSA's. My acceptance of your paper will not constitute any agreement on my part to give the NSA control over publications of ideas. - Carl - <<Disclaimer: All opinions expressed are my own, of course.>> - Carl Ellison cme@sw.stratus.com - Stratus Computer Inc. M3-2-BKW TEL: (508)460-2783 - 55 Fairbanks Boulevard ; Marlborough MA 01752-1298 FAX: (508)624-7488 -----BEGIN RIPEM PUBLIC KEY----- User: cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com PublicKeyInfo: MIGbMAoGBFUIAQECAgP+A4GMADCBiAKBgCl79/jl0DEVl1GQzOHlzjDmChDDxnWO Acd7jShj2x1vclFh6vbHx9IJqkQdwNhNAWf8XnTrqBDN+VSBc1qdT6nSEAbNPxHD XcvY2DudhuRaRBVLgUQ4scTK657m90Q+bTL5yIh2MaFipUw9BgbIXPTDlksSskWP 9oHjo+pCJC+lAgMBAAE= MD5OfPublicKey: 39D9860686A9F075A9A83D49589C677A -----END RIPEM PUBLIC KEY-----