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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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