Steve Bellovin on Nostr: npub1074dk…hz2j6 I only met Kahn a few times, but he was *determined*. When I first ...
npub1074dk2mqqxl7kgukea6th3xaa9fdgx7vty2x8zger32uydyf6e3qzhz2j6 (npub1074…z2j6) I only met Kahn a few times, but he was *determined*. When I first stumbled on Frank Miller's invention of the one-time pad, he *insisted*, repeatedly, that I go with him to the AT&T/Lucent archives to go through their files again on Vernam. When I found an oral history of Mauborgne in the Columbia Library but marked “restricted", I tried going through proper channels—but he bulled his way into reading it. (Worthless, he said.) And seeing his correspondence at the NSA museum…