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- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!ibmpcug!impmh!dsg
- From: dsg@impmh.uucp (Dave Gordon)
- Subject: Re: "registering keys"--antithetical to cryptography
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.142309.26892@impmh.uucp>
- Organization: Integrated Micro Products Ltd
- References: <Nov13.223702.62690@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Distribution: wordl
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:23:09 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- In <Nov13.223702.62690@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> ld231782@LANCE.ColoState.Edu (L. Detweiler) writes:
- >
- >(5) The criminal is a criminal not for what he says but for what he
- >does!
-
- Unfortunately, not always true!
-
- >It is only a coincidence that overhearing the former may point to the
- >latter! Law enforcement cannot legitimately be based on infringement of
- >basic rights. (Shall we outlaw communication? Encryption and communication
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >are for practical purposes interchangeable and indistiguishable.)
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Exactly! *ALL* forms of communication (except perhaps telepathy ;-)
- are already encoded (that is, *represented* in a symbol-set mutually
- understood by sender and receiver). Does anyone seriously think
- that the government *should* or *could* restrict the choice of
- symbol-set? I for one don't believe it can be done; with minimal
- effort, I can easily devise a code which allows me to pass any
- information I wish to an accomplice, with *no* chance that it
- will be understood or even *recognised* as an encoded message
- by a third party.
- --
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