At 05:32 PM 8/8/96 -0700, Rich Graves wrote:

On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, John F. Fricker wrote:

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ObCypherpunks: How many people do you know that are working on a day to day basis with medical records systems, the District Attorney's computers, your doctor's computers, state Department of Health, and so on. I'm sure it's come up before but isn't this an obvious of application of encryption and PAK (Public Access to Keys)? Any legislation currently to _require_ that medical records and such be encrypted with access restricted.

"Require"?

Wouldn't do shit. It's a social problem more than a technological problem.

Isn't that the role of legislation? To implement solutions that society would not do on it's own? The enabling technology is obviously off the self. I think you may have misinterpretted my last sentence which was supposed to have had a ? at the end. Where's the proof reader when you need one! --j