At 08:33 AM 1/17/96 -0600, you wrote:
Terence Joseph Mallon writes:
"When people talk of encryption they use the word break, they are approaching from one way but not the only way. I am at present trying the reciprocal, that is, to mend."
Why do I sometimes feel that personalities that once were drawn to design of perpetual motion machines or techniques for squaring circles may very soon flock to cryptographic "research"?
Actually, I think she was just fucking with his mind... It sounds like an answer that I would give to a paranoid newbie, given half the chance. (If I had thought of it...) "A mindfuck is a terrible thing to waste." I am sometimes surprised at the number of "They have broken PGP" stories I keep hearing. People who know NOTHING about cryptography somehow "know" that PGP has somehow been "broken". I wonder how these memes are getting into the culture at large? Alan Olsen -- alano@teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction `finger -l alano@teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ "Is the operating system half NT or half full?"