Crypto's Role in Evil?
blancw at accessone.com
blancw at accessone.com
Mon Oct 9 22:39:08 PDT 1995
From: Jon Lasser
(1) It is impossible to stop these technologies; someone on the list
recently reminded us that a bright fourteen year old could reproduce the
basic functionality of PGP in a brief period of time. The mathematics
of, say, RSA, are fairly basic. I think it's unreasonable to outlaw
multiplication of prime numbers, don't you?
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Uh-huh, yes, I think it's dumb to think of outlawing the right of mental
creatures to engage their faculties to their full potential, especially in a
country which defined encroachments upon it as a crime.
"Unreasonable" people will always try to get something for nothing, with
nothing, while in conflict with those who could & would develop the means to
deliver it.
..
Blanc
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