Re: Passwords as Galaxies, and Status of the Archives

[Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>]

I think it was "Passwords are galaxies in hyperspace". I may be wrong. 
Either way, this was an excellent tread.


-- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred
   Member JPFO. "America's Aggressive Civil Rights Organization"

On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:

> At 11:15 PM -0500 11/15/96, Adam Shostack wrote:
> >Tim May & I had a conversation about this in which Tim posted the
> >great analogy of searching galaxies in the possible passphrase space.
> >The thread covered the question pretty well.
> >
> >Adam
> >
> >(Tim, do you have a copy of your post?  I can't think of the right
> >search terms for Altavista)
> 
> The name of my post was "Passwords as Galaxies." Alas, it does not show up
> in an Alta Vista search, so it's probably not in the few archived periods
> still available (*).
> 
> The approximate date was mid-June 1996. I know this from some followup
> posts I still have. Unfortunately, my increasingly twitchy Macintosh--an
> architecture that appears to be sinking under the weight of inconsistent
> versions, extensions, and other such cruftiness--has dropped a lot of
> chunks of my Eudora archives. My backups may have the missing sections, but
> I don't have time to sort through them now.
> 
> Someone else should have it. Mid-June. "Passwords as Galaxies."
> 
> (* And speaking of the Cypherpunks archives, has anyone heard _anything_
> from Todd Masco about progress on his site? His Web page,
> http://www.hks.net/cpunks/index.html, just reports the same old news:
> 
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> "March 18, 1996
> 
> The cypherpunks and coderpunks pages will be unavailable for the next
> couple of days as we switch over to a new line. We apologize for any
> inconvenience this might cause.
> 
> 
> June 06, 1996
> 
> Not to worry, we know the archives are still down. Just a bit longer,
> Please be patient."
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> 
> Someone alluded to threats by large newspapers to prosecute Copyright
> violations (that is, the archive site perpetuates copyright violations, and
> Web search engines compound the seriousness) as being a reason the archive
> have not come back up. Anyone know if this is really true?
> 
> Todd, are you still reading us?
> 
> --Tim May
> 
> 
> 
> "The government announcement is disastrous," said Jim Bidzos,.."We warned IBM
> that the National Security Agency would try to twist their technology."
> [NYT, 1996-10-02]
> We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed.
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