From: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 05:18:07 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: THE RECIPROCAL ?......
Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960117204930.008b9dd4@mail.teleport.com>
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At 08:33 AM 1/17/96 -0600, you wrote:
>
>Terence Joseph Mallon writes:
> > "When people talk of encryption they use the word break, they are
> > approaching from one way but not the only way. I am at present trying the
> > reciprocal, that is, to mend."
>
>Why do I sometimes feel that personalities that once were drawn to
>design of perpetual motion machines or techniques for squaring circles
>may very soon flock to cryptographic "research"?

Actually, I think she was just fucking with his mind...

It sounds like an answer that I would give to a paranoid newbie, given half
the chance.  (If I had thought of it...) "A mindfuck is a terrible thing to
waste."

I am sometimes surprised at the number of "They have broken PGP" stories I
keep hearing.  People who know NOTHING about cryptography somehow "know"
that PGP has somehow been "broken".  I wonder how these memes are getting
into the culture at large?






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