Speaking of pragmatism, there are significant downsides to having the title of this book include the name “Buddha”, as it will likely alienate lots of people who could benefit from the techniques and technical information about the cool, useful, and profound things they can learn to wire their brain to do and perceive. This dismissal based on Uncle Sid's name might arise in groups as diverse as hyper-rational scientific materialist, or fervent Southern Baptist, or whatever. Also, it is...

This focus naturally percolates over into something like this FAQ, just as someone primarily interested in the mechanics of PGP would devote more space to PGP issues than I have. Gary Jeffers, for example, devotes most of his “CEB” to issues surrounding PGP. Will leave out some of the highly detailed items… Clipper, LEAF, escrow, Denning, etc. a myriad of encryption programs, bulk ciphers, variants on PGP, etc.