[48087] in Cypherpunks
Re: "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu Jan 25 23:27:45 1996
To: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 25 Jan 1996 14:14:21 PST."
<Pine.ULT.3.91.960125140104.9352S-100000@Networking.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 20:24:00 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Rich Graves writes:
> Relying on gentlemanliness to protect privacy is a fallacy.
Of course. The reason we study cryptography is because we can't trust
that people will behave like "gentlemen". However, is not the goal
here to assure that communications can be untappable and privacy
assured to all that wish to have privacy?
Perry
