ULotD? Cuban Tattoos.

[Robert Hettinga]

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Subject: Re: ULotD? Cuban Tattoos.
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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry at piermont.com>


The story posted is an urban legend.

It is NOT an urban legend that someone has been tattooed with "RSA in
Perl". A picture of Richard White's tattoo is at:

http:/www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/tattoo.html

It is also not entirely an urban legend that this has been joked about
-- a friend of mine (a Greek computer security expert who's name I
won't mention) was forced to spend a couple of years back in Greece
after completing his PhD because of restrictions on his original visa,
and his friends joked heavily about giving him a crypto tatoo to
render him non-exportable. However, it was only a joke (albeit one
that was told regularly in computer security circles because the
person in question is fairly well known among security weenies.)

However, the stated story is completely bogus.

Perry

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