I just saw a glaring error in this article which Dana forwards to us which needs correcting: At 9:19 PM 10/23/95, Dana W. Albrecht wrote:

Forwarded from sci.crypt:

In article <45t9oh$6vd@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, whmurray@aol.com (WHMurray) writes:

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In article <45qkp5$8rh@netaxs.com>, grendel@netaxs.com (Michael Handler) writes:

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OTOH, I saw a press-release on Cypherpunks a week or two back that claimed Whitfield Diffie and David Kahn had both examined the algorithm under NDA, and both were blown away by it. OTOOH, I don't know how much Diffie and Kahn know about TCP/IP.

Diffie knows enough; Kahn less. However, both are geniuses and know what they need to know. As to their being "blown away," I tend to doubt it. The idea is useful but not revolutionary.

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