Re: Why is cryptoanarchy irreversible?
At 17:12 1996-11-07 -0800, jim bell wrote:
Simple analogy: Suppose you put two people into a room with a deck of playing cards and a table, instructing "Person A" to build a house-of-cards, and telling "Person B" to stop him from achieving his goal. Who do you think will win? Obviously, the latter will win: It's vastly easier to knock such a structure down than to build it in the first place, and all "Person B" has to do is occasionally take a whack at the structure.
What if Person A is better armed? Could that change the outcome?
In <3.0b36.32.19961108144638.00a11c90@cyberpass.net>, on 11/08/96 at 02:46 PM, Matts Kallioniemi <matts@cyberpass.net> said:
At 17:12 1996-11-07 -0800, jim bell wrote:
Simple analogy: Suppose you put two people into a room with a deck of playing cards and a table, instructing "Person A" to build a house-of-cards, and telling "Person B" to stop him from achieving his goal. Who do you think will win? Obviously, the latter will win: It's vastly easier to knock such a structure down than to build it in the first place, and all "Person B" has to do is occasionally take a whack at the structure.
What if Person A is better armed? Could that change the outcome?
Well this takes you into the field of Game Theory which many books & papers have been writen on. :) A close look at the cold war, deteriants, arm races, SALT treaties, ...ect. should give you some real world examples of how such mechanisims work. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting WebExplorer & Java Enhanced!!! Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of PGPMR2 - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice Look for MR/2 Tips & Rexx Scripts Get Work Place Shell for Windows!! PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. Finger whgiii@amaranth.com for PGP Key and other info ----------------------------------------------------------- *MR/2 ICE: I don't do Windows, but OS/2 does.
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