Young codebreakers get ready to take on UK National Cipher Challenge

2003-10-19 Thread R. A. Hettinga
In Wessex, at least, they use "ci", instead of "cy"... :-) Cheers, RAH -- The Wessex Scene Online Young codebreakers get ready to take on National Cipher Challenge Date: Saturday, October 18 @ 22:05:26 BST Topic: Computers For the second yea

Re: WYTM?

2003-10-19 Thread Peter Gutmann
Ian Grigg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >So, in reality, the spec does not specify, even if it uses the words? OK, so >there is no surprise if there is no takeup. Actually I think the main reason was that there's virtually no interest in this. >What was the motive for adding lip service into th

Re: WYTM?

2003-10-19 Thread Damien Miller
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 00:47, Peter Gutmann wrote: > >What was the motive for adding lip service into the document? > > So that it's possible to claim PGP and X.509 support if anyone's interested in > it. It's (I guess) something driven mostly by marketing so you can answer > "Yes" to any questio

Re: WYTM?

2003-10-19 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 01:42:34AM -0600, Damien Miller wrote: > On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 00:47, Peter Gutmann wrote: > > > >What was the motive for adding lip service into the document? > > > > So that it's possible to claim PGP and X.509 support if anyone's interested in > > it. It's (I guess) so