-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 02:52 PM 1/26/96 -0800, Timothy C. May wrote:
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".
This is the main reason I haven't bothered to rebut her points: there were essentially none to rebut.
(There are substantive criticisms of my points that can be made, including discussions of what might be done to delay or even head off crypto anarchy completely. I had dinner a few nights ago with David Friedman, author of "The Machinery of Freedom," and he made some incisive comments about how the State might go about heading off this future. I'm glad he's on our side, and not the government's.)
Two other reasons I have not sought to rebut her analysis:
First, I doubt many people saw either my original article (available on Bob Hettinga's page: http://thumper.vmeng.com/pub/rah/anarchy.html) or Denning's reaction article.
Second, I stated my views, she stated her views, not much more to say. Especially as she has not had an active presence on the Net, either in talk.politics.crypto or in other forums I have seen, and thus a real debate on the Net has not been possible.
Mostly I know I can't change her views, so why bother? Other people may have their views affected by what I say, and for these people I have certainly written enough.
Tim, trust me on this one. Dorothy Denning doesn't have a PRAYER. You already believe it, but I _KNOW_ it! Jim Bell Klaatu Barada Nikto. This will become important...soon Something is going to happen. Something...wonderful! (BTW, the above few lines, which looks like a canned signature, is not. Careful readers will note that I keep typing it in, which means that it isn't identical every time. This should be a clue to all you lurkers out there that I MEAN this; it's not just an idle macro. (It also means that I'm going to have to RTFM on my Eudora to do automatic signatures, but that's an ENTIRELY different story.) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMQmQGfqHVDBboB2dAQF3lwP+JzEaN+sR9PdvnaWf2EnWJuDddZs86GbS cO7t+BLb/ALvAExBhBmVhMbYU1lFQS92akUQoMXBM/TLf330QR7E0FOjBdv12rqg n4RfFN7xV6Stib7gDOl2Q2niNqBusIzXT5Isv1A7x4NGF5Yxu7fVtUJ52tRBxHFI 9V+68Z21E4c= =SCkf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----