From owner-cvs-all Sun May 7 12:28:23 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from ducky.nz.freebsd.org (chilled.unixathome.org [203.79.82.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F7F337BC8A; Sun, 7 May 2000 12:28:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.int.nz.freebsd.org [192.168.0.99]) by ducky.nz.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA04773; Mon, 8 May 2000 07:28:05 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <200005071928.HAA04773@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: langille.org To: Warner Losh , Satoshi Asami Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 07:28:05 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports INDEX Reply-To: dan@langille.org Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <200005071924.NAA72800@harmony.village.org> References: Your message of "Sun, 07 May 2000 21:17:44 +0200." <20000507211744.D3267@cichlids.cichlids.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12b) Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 7 May 00, at 13:24, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <20000507211744.D3267@cichlids.cichlids.com> Alexander Langer > writes: : Where do these p's and q's come from? RSA encryption? > > Yes. You pick two primes, P and Q, and keep them secret. Once a > while ago when Satoshi-san committed a prime number I made this > comment, and a joke got started. With all these primes committed > lately, I've continued the joke and made a different once too. In the US > when one is being extra polite, one is said to be minding one's p's and > q's. I have no clue where this saying came from, but it predates the > computer age. Two theories: one is Pints and Quarts as in drinking (don't drink too much etc), the other is that p and q are quite similar, so don't mix them up or get them confused. -- Dan Langille [I'm looking for more work] http://www.langille.org/ | http://www.unixathome.org/ http://www.racingsystem.com/ | http://www.freebsddiary.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message