Previous Subject: Re: Clinton Admin. to announce new Crypto regs Rick Smith <smith@securecomputing.com> said:
These "new" regulations "to be issued" are scrambling to catch up with previous and current practices. It doesn't change things at all. . . . Export permission for strong crypto that only encrypts financial data is clearly a variant of this tradition.
This raises an intriguing possibility that I am sure is _not_ intended by the regulators. If the cash is cheap enough, perhaps it could be an economical carrier of encrypted messages. What I have in mind is somewhat analogous to papering your wall with dollar bills, which clearly is uneconomical unless the dollar bills are really cheap. What does it take to set up an offshore "remailer bank"? Of course, the digital cash it uses must be very INefficient, chock full of bit bloat that hosts plenty of not-so-subliminal channels. 8-) Kevin Q. Brown kqb@planet.net