The WIRED piece Mike Schwab provided a link to recounts things that are commonplaces within the crypto community; but it is a useful brief conspectus for others.
Worth remembering is that these situations are always layered. Duiring the Korean War it was usual for the Chinese to plant two or more sets of booby traps in positions they abandoned. The first were easy to find, but not flagrantly so. The second were not. The notion was that finding the first set would make the [chiefly American] UN Forces less careful, more likely to miss the second. Or again, as the late Malcolm Muggeridge once observed, malignly, "The Americans' CIA is an amateurish sort of organization, but it will provide excellent cover for a professional one if they ever decide to establish it". John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
