Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 17:08:52 -0800
To: tcmay@netcom.com
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Light-hearted Cypherpunks Item
From: hughes@ah.com


   No mention of Cypherpunks per se, but mention of a cryptography
   sesssion that the author of the article dropped in on. He describes
   someone standing at a blackboard drawing circles and arcs. "Sounds
   like Eric Hughes," I thought as I read this. The reporter left.

Oh, yes, that was me.  Details: It was an overhead projector, not a
blackboard.  He's right about circles and arcs; I was describing the
basics of proxy-based communications (aka remailers) and their threat
models.  The panel was Bob Stratton, me, Matt Blaze, and Bernie S.,
who had the AT&T clipperphones (that he couldn't get the audio levels
to match on).

Wired 2.11 has an article by Charles Platt about HOPE.  Well, I have a
true story about Charles Platt.

I had finished my presentation, and Matt was in the middle of speaking
when some drunk in the back started shouting "BORING! BORING!".  He
didn't shut up.  He then started in with "WHERE'S THE CRIME?"  Matt
handled this rather well, I thought, and simply refused to go on,
triggering reasonably quick audience "peer pressure".

Who?  Charles Platt.

After the session, he came up to me and said, "Plus, you don't have
very nice buttocks."

I am not making this up.

Eric