From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 07:25:45 +0800
To: cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Subject: Re: The War is Underway (fwd)
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On Sun, May 11, 1997 at 01:18:43PM -0700, Lucky Green wrote:
> At 04:10 PM 5/10/97 -0700, Kent Crispin wrote:
> 
> >Hence the value of the "Crypto is Cool" approach.  A valuable addition
> >would be crypto packages designed for high school kids.  All my many
> >nieces and nephews are on the net...
> 
> I usually don't reply to these kind of posts, but since you have mentioned
> this before 

Actually, you must be confusing me with someone else -- I can't, to 
my recollection, remember ever having said anything about this 
before.  (Of course, you could always go back in the archives and check.) 
I was just responding to the idea mention by someone else (except 
I think they worded it "ciphers are cool" or something like that).

> and since you obviously still don't deem it appropriate to get
> yourself up to speed by reading the archives, your idea has been discussed
> and tried.

With a memory like mine (and yours too, apparently) reading the 
archives would do no good -- I can't remember a thousandth of all the 
stuff I read, anyway.

> People won't use crypto unless it is either transparent, meaning put there
> *for* them by the OS vendor/application developer or because the see a need
> for using it. The few fanatics that use crypto because "it is cool" are
> inconsequential when the objective is bringing crypto to the masses.

I guess we are doomed, then.

-- 
Kent Crispin				"No reason to get excited",
kent@songbird.com			the thief he kindly spoke...
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