On 9/1/2014 at 3:46 PM, "Robert J. Hansen" wrote:
>I knew Hal, though not well. In my brief experiences with him he
>was
>witty, funny, and unfailingly kind.
=
Back when I first started in PGP, and asked many silly questions that exposed
my ignorance,
Hal Finney was
Hal Finney, one of the original PGP hackers and a pivotal figure in
twenty-plus years of PGP development and evolution of the OpenPGP spec,
died this past weekend of complications from amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis (ALS, or "Lou Gehrig's Disease").
Although he had minimal involvem