At 12:18 AM -0700 9/26/97, I wrote:
... Extreme privacy positions were ultimately elitist and nondemocratic in that they presumed the views of a knowing privacy cognoscenti should pre-empt the views of the nation's elected officials and the Supreme Court, McDonald said.
This reminds me of the state legislature that tried to change the value of pi to something simpler in order to help students struggling with their homework.
Before we go too far down the "stupid politicians" path, I would like to clarify what I was attempting to say. Cryptography is mathematics; it exists in the real world. Legislating against cryptography will, ultimately, be as effective as changing the value of pi by legislation or passing a Papal edict that the the earth is the center of the universe. Pass whatever edict you please: "and, yet it moves." Martin Minow minow@apple.com