From: paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk
To: Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com>
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From: paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 00:44:48 -0800 (PST)
To: Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com>
Subject: Re: Cats Out of Bags
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> Interestingly, the saying, "to let the cat out of the bag" is
> related to the saying, "to buy a pig in a poke." A poke is a
> sack or bag. In times past, street peddlers would sell a mark a
> young pig. The pig was supposedly put into a poke, but in fact,
> a bag with a cat in it was substituted. By the time the mark
> figured out his mistake by "letting the cat out of the bag," the
> peddler was long gone. The lesson the mark learned was "Don't
> buy a pig in a poke."
Thankyou Sandy for this highly crypto-relevant commentary presumably
posted to the censored list so anyone with an interest in
cryptography, cats and pigs can be suitably enlightened. Even if it
wasn`t this would still be unworthy of the flames list.
Datacomms Technologies web authoring and data security
Paul Bradley, Paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk
Paul@crypto.uk.eu.org, Paul@cryptography.uk.eu.org
Http://www.cryptography.home.ml.org/
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"Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey"
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