Re: Encryption in Fiction (DKM's _The Long Run_)

How about a quote from Vernor Vinge's "True Names" (a must read for any
cypherpunk, happily now back in print):

"Like most folks, honest citizens or warlocks, he had no trust for the
government standard encryption routines, but preferred the schemes that had
leaked out of academia -- over the NSA's petulant objections -- over the
last fifteen years".

This from a book that was published in 1981.

Marshall Clow
Aladdin Systems
mclow@san_marcos.csusm.edu

I just reread Clarke's Songs of Distant Earth.

Mentioned in it is "ShipNet" -- an anonymous NetNews onboard that
discusses a possible mutiny.


One wonders if ACC was reading Usenet from Sri Lanka when he wrote this
in 1986. I've since heard that he had a private Internet feed that
existed years before the rest of the country's. Wonder if it's true ;-|

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