Golden Coy Freeh
Paul Phillips
paulp at CERF.NET
Mon Sep 25 14:51:32 PDT 1995
On Mon, 25 Sep 1995, John Young wrote:
> The New York Times, January 25, 1995, p. D5.
>
> The F.B.I. Sting Operation on Child Pornography Raises
> Questions About Cryptography
>
> By Peter H. Lewis
>
> [snip]
>
> If the head of the F.B.I. acknowledged that his agency was
> powerless to crack a cryptography program like Pretty Good
> Privacy, the stampede for that software on the Internet
> would make the run on Windows 95 look puny.
That's a bizarre and naive statement. Is there anyone that thinks the
spread of strong crypto has been less than rapid only because people are
afraid it won't protect them against the government? Um, sorry, no.
--
Paul Phillips | "Click _here_ if you do not
<URL:mailto:paulp at cerf.net> | have a graphical browser"
<URL:http://www.primus.com/staff/paulp/> | -- Canter and Siegel, on
<URL:pots://+1-619-558-3789/is/paul/there?> | their short-lived web site
More information about the cypherpunks-legacy
mailing list