[antiRepublicrat]

Phil Karn, I haven't heard that name in years. I don't do radio, but I am very interested in cryptography. Therefore I know him for suing the government over the export of the code in Bruce Schneier's book Applied Cryptography on disk. He won, not the case itself in court, but he got the administration to drop the stupid rules.

Ah, Schneier, another geek hero of mine.

[Still Thinking]

Katz, I think, not Karn, if you’re thinking of the PKZIP guy.

[Myrddin]

I've met both Phil Karn and Bruce Schneier. I know Phil a bit better due to our ham radio interests. Bruce frequently hung out in the lobby at UseNIX. Phil did a great implementation of TCP/IP on MSDOS. I ported it to my 68000 based Xenix to give that machine TCP/IP connectivity. Because that was a UNIX type OS, I did some optimizations to make the SLIP serial interface code more efficient. It was a big accomplishment to connect that Xenix machine to a SLIP link hosted at UCSD. Thanks to Brian Kantor, WB6CYT, for affording me that first hook to the internet in 1985.