At 08:54 AM 11/19/98 +0800, Bernardo B. Terrado wrote:

Well I thought this list was a list of intellectuals, not only good in hacks and coding and programming and the likes but also well "tailored" with their manners, I have posted similar mails asking something but I have never received one like this. At least the less obvious thing to do is to ignore my message, simply delete it!, is that a hard thing to do?

Yo, Bernie - until you started asking for pirated commercial software, I was wondering whether you were trolling by asking newbie questions or just a real newbie who hadn't looked at any of the literature yet. Knapsacks are, after all, broken long ago, and anything written since about 1980 that talks about them will also say that. I'd recommend getting Bruce Schneier's "Applied Cryptography" and spending a while with it, then looking for academic stuff beyond that if you want, and also reading the documentation for PGP for practical stuff (in particular, Phil's comments on Snake Oil.) There are also some FAQs out there, such as the sci.crypt FAQ. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639