<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Dear Paul,<div><br></div><div>For brevity, I removed some of the text and only left the blocks I am responding thereto: </div><div><br></div><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jul 8, 2026, at 5:23 AM, Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">On Jul 7, 2026, at 23:33, Andrew Lee <andrew@joseon.com> wrote:<br><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>Dear Paul,</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Jul 7, 2026, at 8:02 PM, Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca> wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Thu, 2 Jul 2026, Andrew Lee wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>The Clipper chip failed because the very people that are right here, and others, fought it.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>It was a great win for the Cypherpunks.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I agree it was. We did a great job.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>This message seems to imply you were directly involved in fighting Clipper chip. Were you?</span><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I was too young for that, the “we” was the Cypherpunks.</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks for clarifying, because it was written in an obscure way where many readers may have thought otherwise.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite">I don’t think this is an accurate description of the record. I shared information about the IETF process to this cryptography related mailing list with a brief description of the events that have occurred. I did not tell anyone how to vote.</blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div>You shared badly misinformed information about the IETF and how it works. And you keep doing it, not understanding how IETF works, when there are multiple Last Calls to resolve disagreements and instead attribute it to malice.<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite">I think the phrase I’ve been pulling from the IAB’s message is that you “did not accurately describe the record,” Paul.</blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You didn’t provide a link to the entire message:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/iab/appeals/artifact/310">https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/iab/appeals/artifact/310</a></div><div><br></div><div>Let me quote from it:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: Inter, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“First, the IAB notes that the responsible AD's initial characterization of the adoption call did not accurately describe the record, and that a more precise account was provided subsequently.“</span></div><div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I quoted the text, word for word. To be clear, what you pasted absolutely matches my understanding of it, wherein a record was not described accurately, and therefore, it was subsequently corrected.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Paul Wouters (paul@cypherpunks.ca and also the IETF Security Area</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Director for the first two years of this document's drama lifecycle)</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>This is certainly a cool e-mail address, but I’m confused why you are pasting that e-mail here. Is this some kind of show and tell?</span><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, it was to show you that for the last 30 years, people consider me a “Cypherpunk” (for as much as there is a definition of one) for my years of work on IPsec and DNSSEC to attempt to encrypt the entire internet and fighting NSA wiretapping. I am also known for leaking the ETSI tapping spec Transport of Internet IP Traffic (TIIT) to the public in the late 90s and my coverage of the Dutch digital tapping room that was run by a foreign government and blowing the whistle on how the Dutch branch organization of ISPs in the early 200x tried to setup a lease construction of tapping equipment to offload costs and make tapping easier.</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Please keep up the good work regarding your activities as a Cypherpunk. That said, I think that when one attempts to consider if cypherpunks and PhDs are voicing concern in bad faith versus the NSA, the cypherpunks and PhDs should be getting the benefit of the doubt, no?</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>But sure, keep accusing me of being an NSA shill.</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I don’t think you’re actually telling me to accuse you of being an NSA shill, but at the same time, since I have never accused you of being an NSA shill, it’s not clear how to interpret this.</div><div><br></div></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Andrew</div></body></html>