iloveburritos89

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by iloveburritos89 1y ago
lmao
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Alice and Bob were almost Adolf and Bertholt (1977)(archive.org)
2 points by iloveburritos89 1y ago|4 comments
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by iloveburritos89 1y ago
Rich Schroepell response to Ron Rivest and the RSA paper included a suggestion to name the protagonists Adolf and Bertholt. "Another literary suggestion: name your protagonists, perhaps Adolf and Bertholt or somesuch. This would reserv
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Rich Schroepell responds to Ron Rivest and the RSA MIT algorithm (1977)(archive.org)
5 points by iloveburritos89 1y ago|0 comments
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In 1909 E.M. Forster wrote an eerily prescient short story about man vs. machine(stephango.com)
4 points by iloveburritos89 1y ago|1 comments
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by iloveburritos89 1y ago
I visited MIT and dug through their physical archives. They have boxes filled with documents that you can request online. Took me three trips to finally find this report.
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MIT Committee Report on the Changing Nature of Information (1983) [pdf](archive.org)
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by iloveburritos89 1y ago
Found this in MIT’s basement archives after Ron Rivest told me he’d helped write it but no digital copy existed. The 1983 committee was reacting to federal pressure on university cryptography. It warned that “trying to firewall cryptography
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by iloveburritos89 1y ago
digital cash and solving the double-spend issue were very often discussed in the listserve. i love this email you found.
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by iloveburritos89 1y ago
the timothy may back and forth was funny in the beginning, but quickly devolved into chaos that made the listserve unusable. even hal finney commented on it at some point
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by iloveburritos89 1y ago
emails, names, subjects are better for search. will try to fix body search, but given sheer volume of messages it gets messy pretty quickly so other search factors are higher ranked
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100k emails from the 90s Cypherpunk listserve(cypherpunk.timespan.vc)
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by iloveburritos89 1y ago
I created a GUI to read the email archives from the legendary Cypherpunk listserve of the 1990s. These archives cover the period from 1992-1998. The Cypherpunk listserve is a great time capsule of the encryption wars and the early days of t