[Cryptography] MAybe he's Adam Back, maybe not

[John Levine]

It appears that Steven M. Bellovin <smb at cs.columbia.edu> said:
>
>Almost all of the technical evidence is of that nature, though like many 
>people I was especially amused that the journalist regarded it as 
>significant that both Satoshi and Adam used C++ and public key 
>cryptography. The only part that sounded vaguely convincing to me was 
>the in-person confrontation at the end.

I can think of a lot of reasons he might have been uncomfortable, e.g.

"I know who Satoshi was, and I still miss him."

"I think I personally knew five of the six guys who are/were Satoshi."

and mostly

"Jeez, not this nonsense again."

R's,
John