Ross's TCPA paper

Peter Fairbrother zenadsl6186 at zen.co.uk
Tue Jun 25 20:05:30 PDT 2002


Ross Anderson wrote:

> I don't believe that the choice is both privacy and TCPA, or neither.

Neither do I. 

> There may be symmetry when we consider the problem as theoretical
> computer scientists might, as an issue for abstract machines.

If one-way functions exist there is no such symmetry. While in theory such
functions cannot be proved to exist, in practice they are used a lot in
crypto etc. 


-- Peter Fairbrother





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