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Re: Horseman Number 3: Osama Used 40 bits
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Fri Jan 18 14:12:58 2002
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Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 08:25:55 +0000
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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To: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@rsasecurity.com>
Cc: Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs@philodox.com>,
dcsb@ai.mit.edu, cryptography@wasabisystems.com,
"'R. A. Hettinga'" <rahettinga@earthlink.net>
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"Trei, Peter" wrote:
> [Moderator's note: It wasn't a direct quote, and I generally assume
> reporters misquote people anyway. Also, note that the general
> confusion because the UK uses "thousand million" for the US "billion"
> makes the whole thing even less clearly the expert and not the
> reporter. --Perry]
Actually, to my perpetual dismay, we are now supposed to use a billion
in the US sense (it used to mean a million million). As a result, I
don't use the word at all, since it predictably has become ambiguous in
the UK.
Cheers,
Ben.
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