On Tue, 5 May 1998 01:48:02 -0500 (CDT), Xcott Craver wrote:
Now, I'm not saying analogies are evil, but the analogy to firearms is a *bad* one, and it stands to give people the misconception that crypto is many things that it is not (not to mention including <stigma.h>).
I agree on you opinion of the use of analogies, at large. The stigma is real (as in "happening") but it is nevertheless a load of bull since it is the result of the population misconceptions, of being brainwasher by the apostles of political correctness. The quintessential aspects of guns in a free society is that they are Liberty's teeths. Crypto is also the same, only after the teeths have been bashed in... I argued this over the Canadian Firearms Digest list. Ciao jfa Jean-Francois Avon, Pierrefonds(Montreal) QC Canada JFA Technologies, R&D physicists & engineers Instrumentation & control, LabView programming. PGP keys: http://w3.citenet.net/users/jf_avon and: http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pks-toplev.html PGP ID:C58ADD0D:529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891 PGP ID:5B51964D:152ACCBCD4A481B0 254011193237822C