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Jonesing for freedom

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Sun Jan 31 19:31:29 1999

Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 01:14:30 +0100
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>

At 03:00 PM 1/31/99 +0100, Anonymous wrote:
>In order to examine what crypto really is, let us take an imaginary jump
>into the world in which the "crypto" has happened.
>
>
>Mr. Jones had cheap and unbreakable crypto available to him all his life.

1. You need to include anonymity in your utopia; otherwise traffic analysis
works.
(Just round all up the people connecting to the Young Anaemone Tentacle 
website)

2. Schneier et al. have a paper on the future of copyright in an age where
bits are freely exchanged.  The _street-performer protocol_ is the name,
IIRC, 
and the paper is interesting sociology/economics too.








  





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