Comment by michaelfeathers

11 years ago

Even more interesting - Richard White's tattoo of the RSA algorithm back in the 1990s. It was an open question whether his arm could travel outside the US.

http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1995/12/msg00332.html

Damnit, we need a better culture surrounding publishing on the web, and specifically around maintaining links. All of the interesting hyperlinks there are dead.

  • Sorry, that's my web archive of a mailing list. List traffic was supposed to be ephemeral at the time, not some kind of list of record. (and running list archives got some people in trouble, including me with the IRS CID, which was less fun but also less dangerous than it could have been)

  • [1995]

    ... i.e. Web prehistory. It's not surprising a lot of it is gone after 19 years.