17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
I just read the new and improved Dorothy Denning essay at
This can be found at http://www.cosc.georgetown.edu/~denning/crypto/Future.html
One should realize, of course, that whether Crypto Anarchy prevails depends not upon the varied philosophical leanings of citizen-units May and Denning, but rather upon whether our mathematics is more powerful than their jackbooted thugs.
What I found interesting was the lack of meat behind "Crypto Anarchy is Not Inevitable". It seemed to boil down to the vacuous "if everyone could just agree that key escrow is a good thing, there would be no problem". Cheers, Peter Monta pmonta@qualcomm.com Qualcomm, Inc./Globalstar