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- From: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight)
- Subject: Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.075754.14136@netcom.com>
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- References: <1992Dec18.185048.23741@news.eng.convex.com> <1992Dec19.002110.17682@netcom.com> <1992Dec21.013832.2908@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 07:57:54 GMT
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- Steve Gardner also ignores facts he must know in order to minimize
- the seriousness with which the government takes crypto, by trying
- to compare crypto to good boots (in order to make it appear silly
- to consider crypto as munitions). Thousands of lives have been
- saved by crypto, and several generals have referred to the
- Enigma and Purple decrypts as worth several divisions. Though
- some may want universal secure cryptography, and make arguments
- in support of it which are rational (though not without the
- possibility of counter-argument), it is not possible to make
- an argument that governments don't take crypto seriously,
- and with good reason, because the data are incontrovertible.
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- David
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- P.S. I am not nor have I ever been a Jesuit, though I knew several
- doing Ph.Ds in theoretical physics when I was at M.I.T., and
- admired them enormously.
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