From: Adam Shostack <adam@lighthouse.homeport.org>
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 13:11:10 +0800
To: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr. Dimitri Vulis)
Subject: Re: NYT on Crypto Bills
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Dr. Dimitri Vulis wrote:

| Yes - the Markoff quote is factually incorrect.  I'm sure he knows better
| than this.  Must be the Times editing.

This mistake has popped up multiple times in his work.  I'm not sure
he's aware of it.

| What he probably meant (and perhaps wrote) was that the cyphers used in
| business for centuries could be broken by governments. This started
| changing only after WW I. Wasn't the Enigma marketed to businesses?

	Yes, the initail (failed) marketing was to business.  Only
when the Nazi's started buying did sales start to take off.

Adam

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