[Cryptography] Improper censorship in Schwartzbeck article

Brian M. Waters brian at brianmwaters.net
Mon Sep 22 13:03:08 EDT 2014


On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 20:46:11 -0700
John Gilmore <gnu at toad.com> wrote:
> Both copies of this article show the scars of invalid agency
> censorship.  For example, on the first page they whited out the names
> of the first three directors of the Center for Communications Research
> at NSA's captive think tank (a university-run nonprofit on the campus
> of Princeton University).  However, their names are public knowledge
> and were even in The Puzzle Palace, published 30 years ago.
> 
> For reference, they are: Cornell professor of mathematics J. Barkley
> Rosser (1958-61); University of Chicago mathematics chairman Abraham
> Adrian Albert (1961-1962); University of Illinois/Sandia Corporation
> mathematician Richard A. Leibler (1962-1977).

As an interesting side note, J. Barkley Rosser was a logician who worked
closely with Alonzo Church on the lambda calculus, which led to the
development of modern functional programming.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus.

BW



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