The killer app for encryption

[Tyler Durden]

Uh...I assume you're quoting somebody here?

The last point is actually a very good one, but getting there requires 
hacking through gobbledeegook. What's this "all businessmen" silliness? And 
using vpns WITHIN a company? As an employee of a major Wall Street firm, I 
can tell you that's completely wrong.

But the interesting thing, which again is "obvious" is, "How will P2P 
Networks morph into something like blacknet?"

I'm very interested in hearing about whether any P2P networks support 
encrypted transactions of any sort yet (ie, can one yet pay for some files 
via P2P)? Are there any P2P Networks being designed deliberately to support 
anything/everything, including peered IP Telephony?

-TD


>From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd at echeque.com>
>To: cypherpunks at algebra.com
>Subject: The killer app for encryption
>Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 10:47:14 -0800
>
>     --
>Encryption is a defense against threats.  For people to adopt
>encryption, they need to be threatened.
>
>All businessmen are guilty of insider trading and destruction
>of evidence.   In consequence all businessmen use encrypted vpn
>internally within companies, but not, however, in external
>communications, rendering a public key infrastructure quite
>useless.  For widespread tax evasion to take off, we would like
>widespread use of public keys.
>
>Now the entire population is guilty of file trading.   Pretty
>soon, therefore, the entire population will be using
>encryption, but it is far from clear that this encryption will
>enable all the potential uses of encryption that cypherpunks
>foresaw.
>
>     --digsig
>          James A. Donald
>      6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG
>      5fFQJC040+P9QrkF8BhWR4nUBWhNmexs1EH0ej6o
>      4a8EuzGFht8mQloFG16q2B76njPoWM/jVAzYAxKoQ

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