From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 95 06:56:14 PDT
To: craig@passport.ca (Craig Hubley)
Subject: Re: cypherpunks press releases/contact list: YES!! DO IT!!
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Craig Hubley writes:
> > we've gone over this many times. We aren't a group. We're a mailing
> > list. We've got a diversity of opinions, and we have no organization
> > -- nor do we want one.
> 
> True enough, but there are sometimes rough consenses on technical questions,
> and if it were clear enough that these were collective in nature and not to
> be ascribed to any particular person, e.g.:
> 
> "Consensus on cypherpunks seems to be that 40 bit encryption is not viable
>  for commercial applications, and that Netscape seems to have taken less
>  than due care to choose an appropriate random seed for its session keys."

Why bother? Why not just say, if asked, that most reasonable technical
experts believe 40 bits are too small, or show them by a technical
demonstratino as we already have?

There is this widespread and wholely misplaced affection for
"cypherpunks". We aren't a company or an organization. This is a
mailing list, and occassionally a seminar series in places like
NoCal. It isn't a "group".

Perry