On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 10:16:53AM +0300, Sampo Syreeni wrote:

Agreed, to a degree. But it isn't very difficult to outlaw crypto, and to effectively control its use for online anonymity - to get a workable anonymity infrastructure, you need common protocols, participants to create

It is trivial to pass a law banning crypto. (If you ignore the political considerations. There was a proposal in the House a few years back that banned nonescrowed crypto, see the archives for my report, heh.) It is nontrivial to pass a law that *succeeds* in banning crpto. -Declan