"Omniscient Cryptanalysis"... (was Re: Knuth needs killing)

[Bill Humphries]

On Sunday, March 17, 2002, at 10:40 AM, R. A. Hettinga wrote:

> ...or, "Newby's Rejoinder to Knuth's Paradox".
>
> This is just about the funniest thing I've read on cryptography in months.
> Maybe years.

The question for me is if Knuth is yanking our collective legs, or has 
become more of a crank in his twilight years (consider Johnny Hart's BC's 
over the past five years for comparison. Whatever happened to "clams have 
legs!")

Is there a URL to the cypherpunks archive so I can link these bits?

-- whump