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- From: conners@cse.fau.edu (Sean Conner)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt,alt.security.pgp
- Subject: Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.191436.18557@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 19:14:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.002347.19216@netcom.com> strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
- >In any case, the goverment may choose not to prosecute model makers
- >but that's no assurance they won't prosecute crypto issues,
- >particularly given their concern about those issues and the much
- >greater damage secure cryptography can do to intelligence collection,
- >compared to the damage from airplane models.
-
- I don't doubt that a secure cryptography system will damage intelligence
- collection (at least here in the US), but who is the Goverment exactly serving
- by restricting the import/export/use of cryptography systems? The citizens of
- the US, or itself?
-
- It seems to me that the US Goverment wants to have its cake (having a secure
- cryptography system for its use) and eat it too (by having everyone else use
- a weaker system (including its citizens) so that it can gather "Intelligence"
- to protect itself (or is it to protect the citizens? 8-)
- >
- >David
-
- -spc (for the list makers at the [FBI | NSA | CIA], my name is spelled
- S-E-A-N C-O-N ... )
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