Peter F Cassidy <pcassidy@world.std.com>:

- I am a writer on assignment from the Economist writing about a certain cryptographers' tussle with the State Department, a fellow who is known around the beltway crypto-anarchy, privacy, niceness-on-the-Internet advocacy crowds as Bernstein. I have the outline

There are two of them in my archives: "D. J. Bernstein" (djb@silverton.berkeley.edu) at Berkeley who visited the list once; and E. Bernstein, the author of papers on quantum complexity along with U Vazirani. I've never heard of either of them tussling with the State Department. Apart from the name, though, several cryptographer/cypherpunks could fit the bill, from Phil Zimmerman of course to various people who've tried to extract ITAR clearance or FOIA requests. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- For Electric Dreams subscriptions and back issues, send a mail to rishab@arbornet.org with 'get help' as the message Subject. Rishab Aiyer Ghosh rishab@dxm.ernet.in rishab@arbornet.org Vox +91 11 6853410 Voxmail 3760335 H 34C Saket, New Delhi 110017, INDIA