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What is the story behind the rose symbol?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Wed Nov 26 15:35:42 1997
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 11:54:04 -0800 (PST)
To: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>, cryptography@c2.net
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
We use the rose a symbol of privacy because some bunch of romans
met privately under a roof decorated with a stylized rose, hence
the phrase "sub rosa"
What is the story, why is this meeting place famous, and does
anyone know what the original decoration looked like?
(I want to include a little blurb in my product explaining the
symbols.)
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