[Cryptography] Leo Marks' 1998 talk about WW2 SOE code-making and breaking

[Kent Borg]

On 1/16/26 3:43 AM, John Gilmore wrote:
> PS: This reminds me -- at the Santa Barbara Crypto '95 conference, after
> leaving NSA, Bob Morris Sr gave a talk on "Non-cryptographic Ways of
> Losing Information".  His Rule #1 for cryptanalysis: "check for
> plaintext", because you'll find it remarkably often in real life.  Jim
> Gillogly posted notes from the talk to sci.crypt, which are findable
> from Morris's Wikipedia page:
>
>    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Morris_(cryptographer)
>
> Do there exist any recordings of*that* talk?

Looking at the link from Wikipedia

https://groups.google.com/g/sci.crypt/c/8aFmhI8PaRw/m/bwyHfMA2vGMJ

I only see through "Rule 1". Was that the only rule? Or was the post 
split to fit within usenet size limits? If so, any idea how to see the rest?

By the way, the replies on that page are so old fashioned. No one 
selling anything, all sincere postings, all pretty interesting, no spam. 
:sigh:


-kb, the Kent who remembers how addictive the high-content aspects of 
usenet were in that era.