Chaum Fathers Bastard Child To RubberHose ... PrivaTegrity cMix

Shawn K. Quinn skquinn at rushpost.com
Mon Jan 18 19:30:16 PST 2016


On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 22:15 -0800, Alex Stahl wrote:
> Second, he implied that, with the use of these policies, if a message
> were to traverse a network with nodes operated by the US, Canada,
> Egypt, India, Pakistan, Iran, Russia, China and Japan, it would
> require the admins from those countries to all agree to decrypt,
> turning the solution into a political - not mathematical - one.

The whole point of cryptography is to be secure against political
problems such as this. Despite whatever good Chaum may be known for,
this is bad, and not something I will ever use if I can possibly help
it.

> 

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Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn at rushpost.com>




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