--- begin forwarded text Sender: e$@thumper.vmeng.com Reply-To: ptharrison <ptharrison@delphi.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Precedence: Bulk Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 23:01:00 -0400 From: ptharrison <ptharrison@delphi.com> To: Multiple recipients of <e$@thumper.vmeng.com> Subject: SET and dual use -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The Worldwide Conspiracy of International Bankers is now engaged in an unprecedented attack on the Nation State. Last month, a so-called consortium of very large banks and their lackies the branded credit card companies issued a detailed plan to put strong cryptography into the hands of every statistically creditworthy human being on the planet. In issuing the Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) protocol, this cabal of transnational, stateless seekers of interest income and acquisition discounts have detailed a plan by which every merchant which accepts credit cards, every institution which issues them, and incredibly every individual who posesses them would be able to register and share public keys. Going far beyond the puny efforts of the "cypherpunks" who established primitive pretty good privacy key servers and built a web of trust over the past several years, the International Banking Conspiracy is attempting to set up a gargantuan web of certificate authorities to support individuals and corporations in the publication of their cryptographic identities. The unpatriotic stools of this conspiracy within our own US government are expected to legitimize this unholy plan by permitting the wholesale export of SET-related products under the guise that SET is purely a financial transaction processing system. However, over time it will become clear that this was the beginning of the end. The SET co-conspirators have made it abundantly clear in their specification that the financial security and viability of their entire initiative relies on the absolute privacy of each individual's personal keys. This explicit rejection of the sharing of keys effectively rules out key escrow schemes for SET. After an unprecedented global training excercise, in which the Banking Conspiracy will inculcate the imperative that private keys must NEVER be shared with anyone (or else your credit cards will be cancelled or your merchant status revoked), and after worldwide rollout of products intended to allow secret communications over any network connection including the backbone internet, the public telephone system, radio channels, through corporate and national firewalls, and even by "carrier pigeon" the "consortium" will exend the SET protocol to allow the sending of so-called EDI messages (communications which can be effectively on any topic between any two parties) over the established global secret network. An age of secure private communications will be ushered in. And then...separate SET-protocol webs will be established where the "CAs", "merchants" and "cardholders" are simply pseudonyms for...revolutionary forces intent on trafficing in guns, laundering money and replacing world governments with child pornographers, drugs lords and terrorists. Seemingly innocent browser software installed everywhere will become the tool of evildoers to invisibly conduct their own global conspiracies. Only then, too late, will the Banking Conspiracy realize that they no longer control the planet and that in true Hegelian fashion their great idea contained the seeds of its own destruction. Don't say I didn't warn you! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 4.5 iQCVAgUBM7xnY0Ce79c5xtT7AQHyGgP+OyOzslpIbd98Nx5NyiGmoMpE3DjdZhtT T+MOAx6CLVEd8Bm5xJKEN2v/fZ1QrZeNfOxl1pA5rxXV5bzAFs16nTKIvxFU6iI3 vP2/x7BIW0P75SuCqftCnOotISaN02gvO3Xn+1L3LEJepQ6Aj9C2DoSKE1uzjEy8 WKdfqrG3r5g= =zdfI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------- The e$ lists are brought to you by: Intertrader Ltd: "Digital Money Online" <http://www.intertrader.com/library/DigitalMoneyOnline> Where people, networks and money come together: Consult Hyperion http://www.hyperion.co.uk info@hyperion.co.uk Like e$? Help pay for it! <http://www.shipwright.com/beg.html> For e$/e$pam sponsorship, mail Bob: <mailto:rah@shipwright.com> Thanks to the e$ e$lves: Of Counsel: Vinnie Moscaritolo <mailto:vinnie@webstuff.apple.com> (Majordomo)^2: Rachel Willmer<mailto:rachel@intertrader.com> Commermeister: Anthony Templer <mailto:anthony@atanda.com> Interturge: Rodney Thayer <mailto:rodney@sabletech.com> --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/