1994-09-06 - Re: NY Times Fears C’punks

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From: Carl Ellison <cme@tis.com>
To: jya@pipeline.com
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UTC Datetime: 1994-09-06 19:47:15 UTC
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From: Carl Ellison <cme@tis.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 94 12:47:15 PDT
To: jya@pipeline.com
Subject: Re: NY Times Fears C'punks
In-Reply-To: <199409052359.QAA20112@comsec.com>
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>From: John Young <jya@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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