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- From: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: PKP/RSA comments on P
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.194109.15060@netcom.com>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 19:41:09 GMT
- References: <931.204.uupcb@ssr.com>
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- In article <931.204.uupcb@ssr.com> dick.zeitlin%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Dick Zeitlin) writes:
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- >Cryptography is certainly one mechanism for message concealment, but
- >there are many others. I hope you're not suggesting that all message
- >concealment should be discouraged.
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- No, I wasn't even suggesting that cryptography should be discouraged.
- With respect to my massage about 'lives saved and lost' the only
- purpose of that statement was to refute what I thought was the
- ridiculous claim that governments should be just as interested in
- leaks of airplane dimensions of the sort that show up in Japanese
- plastic models as they should be in cryptography. I was showing the
- much greater importance to governments of cryptography than plastic
- plane models. That someone should attempt to challenge the
- self-evident notion that governments are strongly interested in
- cryptography shows the ridiculous level this discussion has sunk to on
- the part of some.
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- On the general sub-subject--not directed to Dick Zeitlin:
-
- That some others should attempt to turn that into a discussion of
- "what about the enemy dead?" which was totally irrelevant to my point
- about the importance governments give all this, shows something else
- about the behavior of some here, but rather than saying what I think
- that is (which will just spin off yet another sub-thread to little
- purpose), I'll leave speculation about that in the mind of the reader.
-
- The more I participate here, the more i realize that this place is
- not a rational discussion forum for some, but a zoo. One correspondent
- even sent me an e-mail charging me with racism for mentioning that
- the Purple decryption saved American lives, and the Enigma decryption
- saved British lives, both heavily documented facts.
-
- Before I get yet another loutish e-mail screed, let me say that I'm
- sure any Japanese or German decryptions also saved Japanese or German
- lives. The point in this sub-discussion is the importance with which
- governments take cryptography, not whose lives are more valuable.
-
- David
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