Making the Agora Vanish

[Declan McCullagh]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 10:16:53AM +0300, Sampo Syreeni wrote:
> Agreed, to a degree. But it isn't very difficult to outlaw crypto, and to
> effectively control its use for online anonymity - to get a workable
> anonymity infrastructure, you need common protocols, participants to create

It is trivial to pass a law banning crypto. (If you ignore the
political considerations. There was a proposal in the House a few
years back that banned nonescrowed crypto, see the archives for my
report, heh.)

It is nontrivial to pass a law that *succeeds* in banning crpto.

-Declan