From: cme@cybercash.com (Carl Ellison)
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 08:55:27 +0800
To: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
Subject: Re: Denning's misleading statements
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At 20:49 1/27/96, Timothy C. May wrote:
>I've never met Dorothy Denning, so I hesitate to characterize her as a
>villainess. But certainly she's the only noted cryptographer I know of
>who's gone so far out on a limb to defend a position the vast majority of
>computer scientists, civil libertarians, and cryptographers scoff at.

I've met some others -- most noteably Silvio Micali [but he has a financial
interest in that position].  However, DERD is the only one I've met
who is all the way over on Freeh's side.

 - Carl


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