At 5:48 AM -0800 12/10/96, Alan Olsen wrote:

I remember that there was some confusion as to the second edition of _The Puzzle Palace_ by Bamford. (Sorry if this info has been posted before. I did not see a resolution to it. I may have missed it if it was.)

"I found a copy of _The Puzzle Palace_ 2nd edition!", he said crypticly.

In the Penguin Press printing of _The Puzzle Palace_, it notes that there is the 1982 edition (published by Houghton Mifflin) and one in 1983 (published by Penguin) with a new afterward. Since the afterward contains a fair amount of new information (it looks like a number of FOIA requests came in after going to press), it is probibly the "Second Edition" of which Schneier speaks...

Hope that clears things up...

No, I fear you are _confusing_ people with this comment. Yes, there was a 1983 paperbound edition, with a few new items added to the 1982 orginal. Ho hum. (I have both, and have for many years. It was finding the '92 edition that sparked much of my interest in the NSA, back in 1982.) What we are waiting for is the _real_ Second Edition, the long-awaited revising of "The Puzzle Palace." It is expected later this year or next. --Tim May Just say "No" to "Big Brother Inside" We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I 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, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."