As the former manager of the OTP Development and Analysis group at NSA, and as the President and CEO of Mauchly - Wood Systems Corporation, the prime contractor at JPL and developer of cutting edge signal processing software to seismic, well logging, NASA and other worldwide markets, you can bet your booty that Perry, Paul and a lot of others would like to add my scalp to their trophy case. I am sure that all of you will recall how quickly they tried to do so, and thought they had succeeded, a few months ago when I posted my snare algorithm to the cypherpunks list. They leaped at the opportunity to discredit me. I withdrew the OTP claim and posted the ENTIRE algorithm, in a posting dated 10-24-96 addressed to Adam Shostack, and titled Montgolfiering P Information= P log_base_infinity P, Since, then they they have suddenly grown silent. Nary a peep out of the previously oh so vocal. It is obvious that they are totally clueless about how to go about breaking the algorithm, or they would have jumped at the opportunity to add a notch to their analytical gun. As becomes quickly apparent, the algorithm cannot be broken except by brute force, which is patently impossible. Are they trying silent treatment where the rest of you will forget about what is going on, and hope that I will simply disappear. All of those who leaped at the opportunity to take me apart before are now displaying contemptuous intellectual pap, that is pap not the other similar word though that also applies. Their misleading inculcations did not work so what are they trying now. I believe that it is an open ommission on "non possumus." If not and they are trying to analyze and break the algorithm, I apologize. On the other hand, if they are being intellectually amoral, then their impuissance will become generally known shortly. Is that cabal amoral or moral? Are they intellectually honest or dishonest. We will all know shortly. If they hide behind pitjantjatjara words, they are revealed as being dishonest and amoral - if they look at the algorithm and report it out factually, then they are being honest and displaying intellectual morality. It is that simple. Let us see what they do, who they are, and what they are. It is in their hands to do it right or do it wrong. I have received 43 private messages about the montgolfiering posting from this and the coderpunks list. I hope that some of you to go public with your comments. Those that feel uncomfortable in doing so, please contact me privately, with warmest regards, Don Wood