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- From: zeke@fasttech.com (Bohdan Tashchuk)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt,alt.security.pgp
- Subject: Re: Zimmermann's responses to Sidelnikov's PGP critique
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.051046.7367@fasttech.com>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 05:10:46 GMT
- Article-I.D.: fasttech.1993Jan9.051046.7367
- References: <1993Jan8.173701.8858@ncar.ucar.edu> <1993Jan8.193153.4336@netcom.com>
- Organization: Fast Technology Beaverton, OR
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- In <1993Jan8.193153.4336@netcom.com> strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
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- >Finally, I'd suggest extreme politeness in responding to Sidelnikov,
- >and no little respect. Think of him as the Russian equivalent of
- >Einstein in his field if it will help. In Soviet Science, Academicians
- >are analogous to "the immortals".
-
- I don't know Mr Sidelnikov personally. But the ex-S.U. wasn't exactly a
- shining example of a meritocracy, especially at the higher levels.
- So please, let's have a LITTLE less fawning in this forum.
- (Or is this just an extension of your campaign to deprecate PGP?)
-