On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 02:10:28 -0800, Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
James Gleick's NYT article on the OED mentions cypherpunk
among the words recently added to the dictionary.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/05/magazine/05cyber.html?pagewanted=all
The page requires registration to access, though there are enough
popular pseudonyms that have done so; I don't know if any of the
cypherpunks/somepassword combinations still work;
I've been using one of the no-response email systems for my login.
http://www.oed.com/help/updates/latest-additions.html
I don't have a subscription to the online dictionary to
see what they said about it.
University libraries are useful...
Cypherpunk, n.
Computing slang.
A person who uses encryption when sending emails in order to
ensure privacy, esp. from government authorities. 1992 Mondo 2000
No. 8. 37/4 I've heard that cypherpunks are already distributing
their encrypted email software, which is quick and slick. 1995
Wired Jan. 149/1 Parekh, a young, anarchistic cypherpunk, is
dedicated to privacy through strong cryptography. 2005 P. KEEFE
Chatter vii. 169 Their articles were translated from Danish into
English and French and replicated again and again on the Web,
posted on Cryptome and debated by Cypherpunks, forwarded around by
e-mail.
They are open to comments and criticisms... One caveat: for citations,
they want *only* written works for the citation section.
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