Cypherpunks reference in Netscape book

I'm writing the "Encryption and SSL" chapter for the Netscape products, and
I'm finishing it up with a "Further reading" section that lists
crypto-related books, web sites, and newsgroups. I was thinking of including
a reference to this mailing list.

Any strong opinions either way?

As I see it, the downside is a possible increase in confused people
(specifically on the mailing list--not in general from my writing) and a
decrease in the ever-controversial signal-to-noise ratio. The upside is that
new people might come to the list and be enlightened further on the
reasonableness of privacy.

And speaking pragmatically, I can't imagine that too many people would take
the time to: 
        1.  read the docs
        2.  join the mailing list
        3.  post ill-considered messages

(As a side note, if anyone ever has any feedback about security coverage in
Netscape documentation, send it my way.)

Corey Bridges
Netscape Security Documentation
http://home.netscape.com/people/corey
415-528-2978

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cypherpunks-request@toad.com. Don't list cypherpunks@toad.com.

> I'm writing the "Encryption and SSL" chapter for the Netscape products, and
> I'm finishing it up with a "Further reading" section that lists
> crypto-related books, web sites, and newsgroups. I was thinking of including
> a reference to this mailing list.
> 
> Any strong opinions either way?
> 
> As I see it, the downside is a possible increase in confused people
> (specifically on the mailing list--not in general from my writing) and a
> decrease in the ever-controversial signal-to-noise ratio. The upside is that
> new people might come to the list and be enlightened further on the
> reasonableness of privacy.
> 
> And speaking pragmatically, I can't imagine that too many people would take
> the time to: 
>         1.  read the docs
>         2.  join the mailing list
>         3.  post ill-considered messages
> 
> (As a side note, if anyone ever has any feedback about security coverage in
> Netscape documentation, send it my way.)
> 
> Corey Bridges
> Netscape Security Documentation
> http://home.netscape.com/people/corey
> 415-528-2978
> 


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Corey Bridges wrote:

| I'm writing the "Encryption and SSL" chapter for the Netscape products, and
| I'm finishing it up with a "Further reading" section that lists
| crypto-related books, web sites, and newsgroups. I was thinking of including
| a reference to this mailing list.
| 
| Any strong opinions either way?

If you do so, point to the list archives on www.hks.net/cpunks and
give out the address of majordomo@toad.com over a warning about list
volume.

Adam


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