BoardWatch & DigiCash.

Stanton McCandlish <mech@eff.org> writes:

> See current (July 1994) _BoardWatch_, pp. 60-63.  There's an article on an
> e-money scheme called NetCash.  Unfortunately it is utterly stupid, but
> BW is giving it a semi-endorsement.
     That says as much for BW as it does for NetCash. I've read a few
issues of BW, and have found it to be about as useless as most of the
Ziff-Davis publications. Anyone care to suggest a magazine (or other form
of trade rag) that gives unbiased information (or at least as close as
possible)? Z-D lost my subscription to both PC Mag and PC Computing, for
different reasons. The one overriding factor in both, though, was the
Party Line approach to reporting.

                                        --Jeff

PS:  Yeah, I know... It's more than a tad off-topic, so please feel free
     to reply by email.

>      That says as much for BW as it does for NetCash. I've read a few
> issues of BW, and have found it to be about as useless as most of the
> Ziff-Davis publications. Anyone care to suggest a magazine (or other form
> of trade rag) that gives unbiased information (or at least as close as
> possible)? Z-D lost my subscription to both PC Mag and PC Computing, for
> different reasons. The one overriding factor in both, though, was the
> Party Line approach to reporting.
> 
>                                         --Jeff

* I like "Byte." Our own Peter Wayner has written good articles on
crypto.

* "Communications of the ACM" is also good.

The rest of the rags are nearly worhtless, except to hear gossip and
new product announcements.

--Tim May


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Tim May writes -
> 
> 
> * I like "Byte." Our own Peter Wayner has written good articles on
> crypto.
> 
> * "Communications of the ACM" is also good.
> 
> The rest of the rags are nearly worhtless, except to hear gossip and
> new product announcements.
>

Worthless is usually a good description, however there _is_ a very
informative article by Bruce Schneier (howdy) in the July/August
issue of _INFO_Security_News_, called "Encryption's Bright IDEA"
about the background of the IDEA cipher. 

Cheers.