At 20:49 1/27/96, Timothy C. May wrote:

I've never met Dorothy Denning, so I hesitate to characterize her as a villainess. But certainly she's the only noted cryptographer I know of who's gone so far out on a limb to defend a position the vast majority of computer scientists, civil libertarians, and cryptographers scoff at.

I've met some others -- most noteably Silvio Micali [but he has a financial interest in that position]. However, DERD is the only one I've met who is all the way over on Freeh's side. - Carl +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Carl M. Ellison cme@acm.org http://www.clark.net/pub/cme | | PGP: E0414C79B5AF36750217BC1A57386478 & 61E2DE7FCB9D7984E9C8048BA63221A2 | | "Officer, officer, arrest that man! He's whistling a dirty song." | +----------------------------------------------------------- Jean Ellison -+