[Cryptography] Boing Boing pushing an RSA Conference boycott

[Peter Trei]

John Young <jya at pipeline.com> wrote:

> If courageous, Rivest, Shamir and Adelson can be burnt in effigy.

> Their initials once were rightly world famous, and to smear these
> distinguished gentlemen by vulgar opportunistic protest instigated
> by noobs with less than zero comprehension of cryptography
> should be condemned not debated.

> James Bidzos raped the three once, twice, thrice, then hid his
> corporatorizing crime under skirts of EMC. Don't ravage his
> victims.

John:

Just to correct history, Bidzos was *long* gone when RSA was sold to EMC.
Art
Coviello was in charge many years at that point, and still is.

Bidzos was unpopular for zealously maintaining the RSA patent, but he stood
up to
considerable pressure from the USG to keep good crypto available. AFAIK, he
was
on good terms with R, S, and A.

Coviello, I don't want to discuss.

Peter Trei
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