[I am keeping this Cc of the list as I have come across 4 or 5 people in the last month or so, most of who have been readers of the list for years, but who were not up to date with the fact that cypherpunks list is not located at toad.com.] James Little <gonad99@earthlink.net> writes:

I just don't understand what it is u guys are really about. Please help.

First I think you are subscribed to the old list... toad.com only covers some of the traffic. See: http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/cp.html for instructions on subscribing to the current cypherpunks list home. For what cypherpunks are about, cypherpunks are about crypto-anarchy, which some thing will long term corrode the power of governments, needless to say most here also think this would be a good thing. You should read Tim May's cyphernomicon: http://www.oberlin.edu/~brchkind/cyphernomicon/ You might find these books interesting also: "Snow Crash", Neal Stephenson "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", Heinlein "Machinery of Freedom", David Friedman 2nd Ed. Paperback Published by Open Court Publishing Company Publication date: August 1989 ISBN: 0812690680 People also recommend "True Names" by Vernor Vinge, but I have been unable to obtain a copy so far. Perhaps someone could scan it and post it on the eternity servers. Adam -- Now officially an EAR violation... Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`