-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- To: wendigo@pobox.com, cypherpunks@toad.com Date: Wed Sep 18 18:54:08 1996

I think a blacklist of that sort is inherently bad. I would much rather have the public be able to RECOGNIZE SYMPTOMS of snake oil, rather than just be spoon fed a list of good products vs. bad products. Pardon the cliche, but if you give a man a fish ... etc, etc.

Not only that, but you're also looking at a potential lawsuit, unless such a list were compiled and managed through the use of a nymserver. Since there's no way, within reasonable limits, that a cryptogrpahic program can be proven bad, then a lawsuit is inevitable. I could potentially see a list of products which have "methods which have been proven ineffective in securing data against determined attacks" such as DES, etc., but otherwise, it's just begging for trouble. - --- Sean Sutherland | GCS/C d- s+:+ a--- C+++ V--- P L E- W++ N++ K- w PGP Key ID: E43E6489 | o O-(++) M-- V PS+ PE++ Y++ PGP++(+) t--- 5+++ http://pobox.com/~seans | X++ Rb++ DI+ D+ G e- h! !r y -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMkCLo1ZoKRrkPmSJAQE9swf/VWCd3++mf2NUPPPd37bW0oHTcz/T2Ft/ PAN/3bf0/NgE/0XxOHZn3DY2a8J5BYUNtnmoqwc/fVo+UQ1sLL8OgYZb/5PMLKtC A4u9IzhNcdg03M5r2n8DltDIsYewiA7NS3IP3/7s9PU/qpsXxS5aa9rSryoB5sLe qPRW97uutrhQD6BREcvVxpmYllYLLXGX9uYxevK99dxpUrNfjKWm/XL3iE2RsF5n 6mERNQXu3yUEEfPpAvIUPXmw9raAhlseBVBY+S4CbhqKRmH8pn6X2ZKeWouo4cPn ZWyyW6CrQJXbX8ARCp8ojI66UgkHCQpNWKIWKwAvTvtoPAT0lSvd+A== =zuPa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----