At 11:45 AM -0500 10/9/96, Mike McNally wrote:
And so what happens when the Microsoft key is compromised? It might be hard to break by purely cryptographic means, but surely there are some people at Microsoft who aren't millionaires.
Indeed, not all Microserfs are millionaires. Accessing the URL, http://microsoft.com/list_of_millionaires, I find that as of the close of business yesterday, there were 13 non-millionaires at Microsoft. Seven were part-time janitors, three were in food service, and the remaining three had no identifiable jobs. (And two of the janitors are expected to become millionaires any day now.) And http://microsoft.com/list_of_billionaires reports three on the list. Glad to be of help. --Klaus "The government announcement is disastrous," said Jim Bidzos,.."We warned IBM that the National Security Agency would try to twist their technology." [NYT, 1996-10-02] We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1,257,787-1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."