[Cryptography] Happy birthday, Edgar Allan Poe!

[Dave Horsfall]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2018, John Levine wrote:

> Good lord, [The Gold Bug] was written in 1843.  Even with the current 
> absurd copyright laws, anything published before 1923 is in the public 
> domain.

As you pointed out, you can't tell with US laws (and I'm not an American 
anyway), and I didn't want to mistakenly drop our moderator into it.

> It's a short story, not a book, originally published in a magazine. 
> Here's a nice copy from 1889 in a collection of stories:
> https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Gold_Bug.html?id=gJIMAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover

Thanks; I'll update my notes accordingly.

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."