From: m5@dev.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 13:22:56 +0800
To: tjm@easynet.co.uk (Terence Joseph Mallon)
Subject: THE RECIPROCAL ?......
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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"?

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