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- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!gideony
- From: gideony@microsoft.com (Gideon Yuval)
- Subject: Re: Unemployed cryptologists?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.185910.10791@microsoft.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 18:59:10 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- Summary: try MS
- References: <76351@ut-emx.uucp>
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- In article <76351@ut-emx.uucp> bhall@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Bowman Hall) writes:
- >Besides working for governments and researching at universities,
- >what employment is there for cryptologists?
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- Microsoft (who is not the only one!) has licensed RSA's technology.
- My boss (Nathan Myhrvold, MS VP for advanced technology) testified
- before congress that his kids will think of the no-encryption
- systems around now the way _we_ think of the unlocked houses
- of old rural America. So I think companies who think like that
- will need good encryption bodies.
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- Gideon Yuval, gideony@microsoft.com, 206-882-8080 (fax:-883-8101;TWX:160520)
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