"Gentlemen do not read each other's mail"

Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com
Thu Jan 25 22:51:56 PST 1996



Rich Graves writes:
> Relying on gentlemanliness to protect privacy is a fallacy.

Of course. The reason we study cryptography is because we can't trust
that people will behave like "gentlemen". However, is not the goal
here to assure that communications can be untappable and privacy
assured to all that wish to have privacy?

Perry






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