How to legit encryption
Jeff Gostin
jgostin at eternal.pha.pa.us
Mon Jul 25 20:10:03 PDT 1994
tim werner <werner at mc.ab.com> writes:
> This is a neat way of expressing a good idea, but I wouldn't count on it.
> A language can probably be construed as something that can be understood by
> anyone who learns it. Even though I speak PGP, I still can't understand
> what you say without a key. There's probably no legal precedent for that
> yet, but look what they've done with the rest of the Constitution so far.
Ok, what if PGP-encyphered text were argued to be COMPILED? In that
case, the original SOURCE CODE was being shared, and the COMPILER being
held secret. Source-reading keys are available upon request. Or some twist
like that. :-) What do you think? All of a sudden, we have compiled source
code being pushed around that is VERY difficult to reverse engineer
without the proper authorization.
--jeff
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