From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com> Date: Sat, 3 Sep 1994 11:19:14 -0400

The New York Times Magazine, p. 23 September 4, 1994

Perhaps the most surprising democratization of high technology is that of cryptography, once an elite art of those who guarded Government's most precious secrets.

This is infuriating. Has no one read Kahn? Cryptography has been developed by amateurs since the beginning, over 3000 years ago. How about an e-mail or (ugh) Snail address for the NYTimes? - Carl