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Re: Golden Key Campaign
Ok! OK! I expect to get hit for this, but maybe we could set up a
graphic on our pages with the "broken Key" from the lower left corner
of Netscape to commersate the RSA date.
> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 12:08:08 -0700
> From: Hal <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Golden Key Campaign
> From: [email protected] (Bill Frantz)
> > Some people say that the millennium comes on Jan 1, 2000. Others say it
> > comes on January 1, 2001. I say it comes on September 20, 2000 when the
> > RSA patent expires.
>
> It is traditional to commemorate big events with annual observances. I
> say there's no reason the observances can't predate the event when it is
> known in advance.
>
> So I propose that September 20 be known as Crypto Freedom Day, and an
> annual celebration be held on that day. With each year closer to 2000
> the party gets bigger, culminating on the day that the patent actually
> expires. We can all run our RSA in three lines of Java that Adam Back
> will have prepared, and taste for the first time the freedom which the
> rest of the world will have known for the past 17 years.
>
> Hal
>
>
Lou Zirko (615)851-1057
Zystems [email protected]
"We're all bozos on this bus" - Nick Danger, Third Eye
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