[1548] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Nyah, Nyah, I've Got A Secret
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Sat Sep 20 21:36:48 1997
To: Steve Reid <sreid@sea-to-sky.net>
cc: Carl Ellison <cme@cybercash.com>, cryptography@c2.net
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 20 Sep 1997 16:11:00 PDT."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 20:28:51 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Steve Reid writes:
> On Sat, 20 Sep 1997, Carl Ellison wrote:
> > Civilians have had strong cryptography for over 3000 years. That is
> > because we civilians have invented the strongest cryptography during
> > that time. We have used it for encrypting diaries, business messages,
> > procedures for locating buried treasure, love notes, notes between
> > school buddies, ....
>
> The "crypto is normal" argument has been done to death. The people who
> understand it understand it. The people in washington who _should_
> understand it are only listening to the evesdropping agencies, even to
> the point of ignoring the govenment's own NRC report.
I would say that it none the less bears repeating, over and over
again, until the media pick it up.
Perry
