From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 12:43:45 +0800
To: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Comparing Cryptographic Key Sizes II
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At 23:33 +0100 6/24/97, Adam Back wrote:
>I don't think we can explain it any more technically and expect it to
>be useful to a journalist.

Um, some of us journalists have *gasp* taken computer science classes,
programmed in machine code, crafted compression routines, written our own
Unix shells, etc.

Now, I don't want to start a "who's the geekiest geek" contest, since y'all
will win hands-down -- but I want to point out that while we may not be
crypto-whizzes, not all of us are entirely clueless either.

-Declan