From:	      John Gilmore [SMTP:gnu@toad.com]
Sent:	      Friday, July 17, 1998 5:28 PM
To:	      caruso@technomedia.com; Hopkins, Don; gnu@toad.com
Subject:      Re: "EFF DES Cracker" machine brings honesty to crypto debate 

> this was a great story and your name for the computer worked on SOOO many
> levels that i almost spit out my coffee this morning.
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> Denise Caruso                                        415.695.0508 vox/fax
> Digital Commerce Columnist, New York Times
> http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/reference/indexdigicom.html
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> "Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable.  But
> there it sits, nevertheless, calmly licking its chops."     H. L. Mencken
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Don Hopkins invented the name.  I just recognized his genius.  I'm glad
we jointly inspired you into a spasm.  And thanks!

   John

From: Hopkins, Don [mailto:Hopkins, Don] 
Sent: Monday, July 20, 1998 3:22 PM
To: 'John Gilmore'; caruso@technomedia.com
Cc: dhopkins@maxis.com
Subject: RE: "EFF DES Cracker" machine brings honesty to crypto debate 

Thanks for the recognition! 

The official "hidden message" is that there's a Deep Crack in the
government's export control policies.

Not responsible for any allusions to IBM's chess computer, the Liberty
Bell's distinguishing characteristic, George Bush's anti-drug address
to the nation in which he held up a sack of Marion Barry's favorite
candy, Woodward and Bernstien's secret source, Linda Lovelace's famous
movie, Douglas Adam's enormous computer that answered fourty-two, or
anything else that might cause you to spit out your coffee. c(-;

    -Don