crypto in the NY Times
Duncan Frissell
frissell at panix.com
Sun Jun 12 08:31:47 PDT 1994
And yet again:
Attention - Steven Levy - The most common use of crypto from the dawn of
time to the present has been to protect commercial information. There
were always more traders than governors and they had more need to read or
count. Writing was a commercial invention and coding is just another form
of writing.
How much are we paying these guys department:
Attention - Jim Kallstrom, Fibbie - who argues (correctly) that strong
crypto is just the same thing as if a criminal gang could build an
unbreakable fortress in the Bronx and stash Polly Klass inside and the
government could do nothing...
If the bad guys have an unbreakable wall, the *victims* have an
unbreakable wall too. The criminals gain nothing. They are, in fact,
worse off since it becomes *harder* to 'break the close.'
DCF
There'll be more I'm sure.
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