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Re: Dining with the Cryptographer
On Wed, 8 Dec 1993, Douglas Barnes wrote:
> It was 4:30 in the afternoon; Dallas is a highly optimistic three and
> a half hours away.
3 hours, the way I drive...
> Since neither of us had ever really been to Dallas as an actual
> destination, we bought a map in Troy. (Home of the fighting Trojans.)
> Jim spent the rest of the way to Dallas (several hours) attempting to
> unfold the map.
Dallas is easy - get on I-35 and go NORTH...
> Now, unbeknownst to Jim or I, we were _savagely_ underdressed for
> what turned out to be the best Italian restaurant in Texas. Chaum, at
Horseshit. Eletto's in Austin is the BEST Italian place in Texas!!!
> He had come to Dallas not for a convention, but rather to work with
> a company that is implementing his smartcard technology for automated
> toll collection equipment. "It's hard to do this protocol in such a
> narrow window, but we're getting there. If the car is doing 60, there
> just isn't much time."
The North Dallas Tollway already *has* such a gadget. Pretty cool, too...
> Halfway to the car, as if on cue, Jim and I just completely lost
> it and started laughing hysterically. All the tension and nervous
> energy of our mad dash to Dallas and meeting a hero of the digital
> revolution had melted away, and the full realization of the incredible
> experience hit us full force -- out of the blue, this guy whose papers
> we had passed back and forth and argued about endlessly over bagels,
> had called Jim up, invited us out to dinner two hundred miles away, we
> had a great talk, this incredible food, put new life into the Digial
> Credit Union project... and only about eight hours had gone by.
Oh .. did you ever figure out why he called *you*???
Ed Carp, N7EKG [email protected] 510/659-9560
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