[0162] (18 lines) Lippard.Multics 11/04/87 2012.8 mst Wed misc Subject: NSA joke Date: Wednesday, 4 November 1987 15:41 mst From: Paul Dickson To: {mbx >udd>m>Lippard>misc>misc} Forum-Transaction: [0830] in the >udd>mpo>mtgs>Info-Security meeting Transaction-Entered-By: Network_Server.Daemon Transaction-Entered-Date: 28 October 1987 17:16 mst Date: Tuesday, 20 October 1987 13:04 mst From: oster%dewey.soe.Berkeley.EDU at UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU (David Phillip Oster) To: misc-security at UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU A friend of mine just returned from a math convention. He tells me that the story circulating there is: The NSA is now funding research not only in cryptography, but in all areas of advanced mathematics. If you'd like a circular describing these new research opportunities, just pick up your phone, call your mother, and ask for one. ---[0162]---