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From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener)
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: Re: Enigma and the Eastern Front
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Date: Sun, 9-Mar-86 03:32:17 EST
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In article <1643@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.ARPA writes:
>The only relevance of all these historical discussions to
>cryptology that I can see lies in what we can learn from
>history.  So, what have we learned?
>
>Arguments about who did what when seem to be in the same
>category as debating how many angels can dance on the head
>of a pin, with about as much relevance to the subject of
>this newsgroup.

Tom and I tried to stop it ourselves, but people asked us to
continue.  Cryptology is cryptology, period.  Foiling bad guy
dial-ins seems to have as much relevance as discussing what
the Soviets did in WWII.

Frankly, I'm in the mood for Tom to convince me that he's right.

O-)	Megaton Man, on patrol!

Wooo!

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720