Re: Encryption in Fiction (DKM's _The Long Run_)
How about a quote from Vernor Vinge's "True Names" (a must read for any cypherpunk, happily now back in print): "Like most folks, honest citizens or warlocks, he had no trust for the government standard encryption routines, but preferred the schemes that had leaked out of academia -- over the NSA's petulant objections -- over the last fifteen years". This from a book that was published in 1981. Marshall Clow Aladdin Systems mclow@san_marcos.csusm.edu
I just reread Clarke's Songs of Distant Earth. Mentioned in it is "ShipNet" -- an anonymous NetNews onboard that discusses a possible mutiny. One wonders if ACC was reading Usenet from Sri Lanka when he wrote this in 1986. I've since heard that he had a private Internet feed that existed years before the rest of the country's. Wonder if it's true ;-| -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close............(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
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