NY Times Fears C'punks

Carl Ellison cme at tis.com
Tue Sep 6 12:47:15 PDT 1994


>From: John Young <jya at pipeline.com>
>Date: Sat, 3 Sep 1994 11:19:14 -0400

>The New York Times Magazine, p. 23
>September 4, 1994


>Perhaps the most surprising democratization of high technology is that
>of cryptography, once an elite art of those who guarded Government's
>most precious secrets. 

This is infuriating.  Has no one read Kahn?

Cryptography has been developed by amateurs since the beginning, over 3000 
years ago.


How about an e-mail or (ugh) Snail address for the NYTimes?

 - Carl






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