BoardWatch & DigiCash.
See current (July 1994) _BoardWatch_, pp. 60-63. There's an article on an e-money scheme called NetCash. Unfortunately it is utterly stupid, but BW is giving it a semi-endorsement. That says as much for BW as it does for NetCash. I've read a few issues of BW, and have found it to be about as useless as most of the Ziff-Davis publications. Anyone care to suggest a magazine (or other form of trade rag) that gives unbiased information (or at least as close as
Stanton McCandlish <mech@eff.org> writes: possible)? Z-D lost my subscription to both PC Mag and PC Computing, for different reasons. The one overriding factor in both, though, was the Party Line approach to reporting. --Jeff PS: Yeah, I know... It's more than a tad off-topic, so please feel free to reply by email.
That says as much for BW as it does for NetCash. I've read a few issues of BW, and have found it to be about as useless as most of the Ziff-Davis publications. Anyone care to suggest a magazine (or other form of trade rag) that gives unbiased information (or at least as close as possible)? Z-D lost my subscription to both PC Mag and PC Computing, for different reasons. The one overriding factor in both, though, was the Party Line approach to reporting.
--Jeff
* I like "Byte." Our own Peter Wayner has written good articles on crypto. * "Communications of the ACM" is also good. The rest of the rags are nearly worhtless, except to hear gossip and new product announcements. --Tim May -- .......................................................................... Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@netcom.com | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-688-5409 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, W.A.S.T.E.: Aptos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^859433 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."
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* I like "Byte." Our own Peter Wayner has written good articles on crypto.
* "Communications of the ACM" is also good.
The rest of the rags are nearly worhtless, except to hear gossip and new product announcements.
Worthless is usually a good description, however there _is_ a very informative article by Bruce Schneier (howdy) in the July/August issue of _INFO_Security_News_, called "Encryption's Bright IDEA" about the background of the IDEA cipher. Cheers.
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