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Re: Monoculture / Guild
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Sat Oct 4 14:52:43 2003
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Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 18:02:33 +1200
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com, gnu@new.toad.com, gnu@toad.com,
iang@systemics.com
John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com> writes:
>The Guild, such as it is, is a meritocracy; many previously unknown people
>have joined it since I started watching it in about 1990.
>
>The way to tell who's in the Guild is that they can break your protocols or
>algorithms, but you can't break theirs.
>
>PS: Of course there's whole set of Mystic Secret Guilds of Cryptography.
Knights of the Spi Calculus?
Peter.
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