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Re: Newt on Crypto

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Wed Nov 8 00:02:04 1995

Date: Tue, 07 Nov 1995 20:54:15 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>

From John Young's posting CYB_lip of a column from the Washington Post

>   "At some point in the not-very-distant future," said
>   Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) in an August interview in
>   Wired with computer guru Esther Dyson, "somebody is going
>   to have encryption you can't break.... Governments are not
>   going to be able to stop it."

Newt's an optimist (from the government perspective.)
At some point in the not-very-distant future, 
_everybody_ is going to have encryption the government can't break!


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