Zychik Chronicle is a free electonic publication, it's recommended by my Libritarian/Chryto-Anarchal Capiltalist friends. ---fowarded message ---------------World Trade & Liberty: (CyberWire Dispatch June 3rd, brock@well.com for a free subscription) Brook Meeks the author of CyberWire calls it a "virtual nuke hurled into the arcane subculture of encryption technology." So let's go back to the days before the virtual nuke. The father of encryption technology for most of us layman is Phil Zimmerman, the author of PGP. Essentially, Phil's PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) allows you to use encryption technology that the government would have to spend too much time and too much money to bust every message you sent. Phil's profit on PGP was zero. He offered it for free. The government, always willing to let no good deed go unpunished, spent the last 4 years threatening to put Phil in jail for exporting sensitive technology. Phil didn't export a thing. Someone - not Phil - loaded PGP on the net, and lo and behold, the net being a global village, PGP toured the village. After harassing Phil for four years, the gov't dropped its case - in large part due to the financial and legal support Phil got from those evil perverts called Netizens, Net Surfers, Hackers, Cypherpunks, Electronic Freedom Foundation, Libertarians and other various forms of traitorous electronic scum. I know his defense fund got a check from me and my wife. Anyway, the government started feeling threatened by hordes of Pagans who don't worship at the alter called Congress. So it offered us peanut-brains the Clipper chip. Oops, make that KKKlipper chip. The idea behind the KKKlipp-your-liberties-chip was that you could have all the privacy you wanted by using the gov't chip, as long as the gov't had the "key" to unlock your code. Duh, I don't know why all of us peanut brains didn't line up to get that chip? What's the matter with Americans? Don't they know a good deal when they see one. So, just to get even with us peanut-brains, Bill-if-I-can't-look-up-your-skirt- then-I'm-going-to-spy-on-your-motherboard-Clinton set up rules which basically made it impossible for the US to compete in the "robust encryption technologies [field], at a possible loss of $60 billion for US companies." Well, for some strange reason one of us peanut-brained Pagans, one of us low life Hackers, one of us Netizen pond scum smelled buckies. His name is Jim Bizdos. He's president of RSA. What RSA did was to hook up with some of those funny speaking, slant-eyed, yellow people called Japanese scuzzballs. Yup, Jim & the Japs came out with a "monster chipset capable of scrambling voice and data real time with a 'key length' of up to 1024 bits." The operative term here is key length. The longer the key, the better the encryption. US law says US companies can't export a key length greater than 40 bits. Now here's the catch: Jim-unAmerican-greedy-guy and them Thieving-low-down-Japs ain't exporting nutin'. They made the stuff in Yellow- Peril Country. You know, Japan! Gosh, my fingers shook as wrote that Jap word. Besides being attacked by the Japs, look out for the Limeys (Brits) and the Frogs (The French). Dem folx is also developing encryption technology that will put a child molester in every American home, a Republican in every American trash can and a Democrat in every US toilet. Phil Zimmerman was the pioneer, but as Brock Meeks says, PGP is "tough to use." The RSA chip set works in real time! It scrambles voice *and* data. 15 low-down-degenerate-self-indulgent-uncaring-countries "have already placed orders for these chips." Japanese law forbids building chips that have what's called "an escrow function." An escrow function means the gov't gets a key to your code. In other words those damned Japs are attacking us again by making it a legal requirement that your privacy and mine be protected. Damn, we should have bombed on the whole country when we had the chance. Hey, tell you what, after the FBI blows Justus to hell and back, let's send the Federal Bloodletters and Incinerator-crew after the Yellow People. Yup, we don't no world trade. It's a threat to our pure KKKulture. World trade is also a threat to jobs. If the Gestapo can't listen in on your phone calls and decode your e-mail what are all those poor little FBI, BATF, sheriffs, and local cops going to do? Comment: We're entering a period of world trade in which any government that limits the liberties of its citizens will be punished in the market place by competing governments. The fun has just begun. Joe Zychik Editor, The Zychik Chronicle ------- Posted daily Mon-Fri after 3 pm PST at http://www.pacificnet.net/~jzychik To receive the ZC, free, contact: jzychik@pacificnet.net