RE: Dr Dobbs crypto CD

I called them up a couple weeks ago to ask about this. The person I
talked to
had clearly fielded this question quite a few times. The story he gave
is that
preparation of the master CD was farmed out to some particular
individual
contractor who was stalling. I got the impression that I was being told
that
the contractor was apparently imcompetant, and could not turn in a
usable
master in a timely fashion.

There was also some mention of the possiblity of 'legal difficulties',
though
I was given no details on that.

Peter Trei
ptrei@securitydynamics.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	dlv@bwalk.dm.com [SMTP:dlv@bwalk.dm.com]
> Sent:	Saturday, January 31, 1998 12:14 PM
> To:	cypherpunks@toad.com
> Subject:	Dr Dobbs crypto CD
> 
> The DDJ I just got (March 98) has a full-page ad for the crypto CD
> (p.113)
> saying inter alia "New Release! fast Search Engine"
> 
> Has anyone received even the "old release"?
> 
> ---
> 
> Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
> Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013,
> 14.4Kbps
	[Trei, Peter]  
I called them up a couple weeks ago to ask about this. The person I
spoke to
had clearly fielded this question quite a few times. The story he gave
is that
preparation of the master CD was farmed out to some particular
individual
contractor who was stalling. I got the impression that I was being told
that
the contractor was apparently imcompetant, and could not turn in a
usable
master in a timely fashion.

There was also some mention of the possiblity of 'legal difficulties',
though
I was given no details.

I'm still waiting for my copy.

Peter Trei
ptrei@securitydynamics.com

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on or about 980202:0940, in <6B5344C210C7D011835C0000F80127668B1610@exna01.securitydynamics.com>, 
    "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@securitydynamics.com> was purported to have 
    expostulated to perpetuate an opinion:

>I called them up  [...] the impression that I
>was being told that the contractor was apparently
>imcompetant, and could not turn in a usable master in a
>timely fashion.
>
    pure bullshit. that would have been easily enough 
    remedied --get another contractor or invest $3K for top
    of the line equipment (<$1K if you dont mind fiddling)
    and do it yourself. 

    there may be a problem on their part to pay for the
    mastering and the first press run.  if that's the case,
    a few of us should try to acquire their publshing rights
    and get the job over with.

>There was also some mention of the possiblity of 'legal
>difficulties', though I was given no details on that.
>
    1) the creditor lawyers?

    2) more likely the Feds under EAR since there is code
       on the disk and they know full well the mean time
       to export is <60 minutes.

    the first option is solvable as in the contractor 
    problems.  the second option, well...  you know the 
    drill.

    maybe Peter Junger would like to front this and add it 
    to his open ended actions with the Feds?

    whatever...  but let's DO something; anytime I can get
    reference material in a searchable, displayable format,
    I've already got my wallet open.

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