12 Sep
1993
12 Sep
'93
12:28 a.m.
Phil Karn says:
I want to echo Carl's sentiments. I do find talk about cryptographically enforced underground economies to be interesting, but scary as well precisely because I'm afraid of what the backlash might do to the cryptographically enforced personal privacy that I'm primarily interested in.
You have to accept that the tools for the one are the same as the tools for the other. Its reasonable to not want to emphasize both, but its unreasonable to assume that the enemy doesn't already know that both are done with the same algorithms. If this worries you, come up with your arguments now -- you will need them later. Perry