At 8:39 PM 6/21/96, se7en wrote:

Cryptography may not academic science's only contribution to making business work in an unpredictable, technology-driven world. If a growing community of natural scientists, social scientists, and business theorists are right, then the cryptographic algorithms taht make electronic transactions secure will soon seem downright prosaic.

This unusual admixture of pure researchers and real-world practitioners tends to congregate around research institutions in New Mexico, which has been a scientific hotbed ever since the atomic bomb project of the 1940s. ...

Se7en, I am curious. Did you write this, or is this a forwarded article? If you wrote this, it is very typical of journalistic treatments, and is well-written. You have a career in journalism ahead of you (or perhaps you currently are a journalist, under another name, in which case you should still indicate what your actual journalistic name is, as I doubt you write under the name "se7en." If you did not write this, then you need to start including indications about who did write it, and where it appeared, and that it's a forwarded article. --Tim May Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."