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- From: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight)
- Subject: Re: Limits on the Use of Cryptography?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.194425.2026@netcom.com>
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- References: <2229.517.uupcb@grapevine.lrk.ar.us> <1993Jan3.165050.27910@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 19:44:25 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan3.165050.27910@zip.eecs.umich.edu> positron@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Jonathan Haas) writes:
- >In article <2229.517.uupcb@grapevine.lrk.ar.us> jim.wenzel@grapevine.lrk.ar.us (Jim Wenzel) writes:
- >>
- >> Since laws will probably be drafted concerning the use of cryptology
- >> how would you want such a law to read if you had the opportunity to
- >> shape it.
- >>
- >
- >Well, if the government passes a registration law, and demands that I hand
- >them my private key, I will politely tell it to kiss my ass.
-
- In general this can have consequences other than a Joan of Arc trial,
- which some seem to have in mind. The Government has many ways to
- make people do what it wants. A simple example: in California
- one must give one's Social Security Number to get a driver's license.
- No SSN, no license. One can always spend a lot of money on attorney's
- fees to sue the State, but likely to little avail and in any case
- at a cost of time and money better used elsewhere.
-
- Thus if one objects to the notion that the government might pass
- a registration law, the time to object is in advance, and to one's
- legislators, and not via brave talk about prying keys from one's
- cold, dead hand.
-
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