rr> About "Keep Out": you might want to be more precise in your blurbs. As rr> things stand, I'm leery of trusting anything I might see in rr> your journal. rr> RSA is not broken, as far as I know. If you have verifiable details that rr> it has, that'll be quite a scoop. If you meant to say "the _factoring_ of rr> RSA-129," well, you should have said that instead. My apologies to the net. RSA is certainly not broken, and I was aware of that when this press release was written. My word choice was sloppy. In the article, the information comes from people I have interviewed who have direct, first-hand knowledge of the effort--people like Arjen Lenstra, who wrote the software that made the factoring possible. rr> > * An interview with Phil Zimmermann, including his thoughts on rr> privacy in the digital age, export controls on cryptography, the rr> copyright on RSA (the algorithm used in PGP), and information on his rr> struggle with US Customs over exporting PGP rr> A publisher, of all people, really needs to understand what a copyright rr> is. Note that we cannot copyright ideas, only our expression of those rr> ideas. Referring to a copyright on "the algorithm used in PGP" is rr> nonsense. Instead, PKP holds licensing rights to a system _patent_ on rr> using RSA to perform public key encryption. Again, I used sloppy language. And again, my apologies. This is certainly not the last mistake I will make. There will be errors in Keep Out. However, I will do my damndest to make sure Keep Out remains as accurate and unbiased as it can be. And when I make mistakes, I trust Cypherpunks to let me know about them, so I don't repeat the mistakes. It's a damn sure bet I won't be making these two errors again! --John Schofield -- : John Schofield - via mcws.fidonet.org - Public Access (213)256-8371 : ARPA/INTERNET: John.Schofield@f903.n102.z1.fidonet.org : UUCP: ...!cheshire!mcws!903!John.Schofield : Compu$erve: >internet:John.Schofield@f903.n102.z1.fidonet.org