[48176] in Cypherpunks
Re: Doctor Denning
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Monta)
Fri Jan 26 14:44:44 1996
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Jan 1996 10:07:10 PST."
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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 11:33:55 -0800
From: Peter Monta <pmonta@qualcomm.com>
> I just read the new and improved Dorothy Denning essay at
>
> http://www.cosc.georgetown.edu/crypto/Future.html
This can be found at
http://www.cosc.georgetown.edu/~denning/crypto/Future.html
> One should realize, of course, that whether Crypto Anarchy
> prevails depends not upon the varied philosophical leanings of
> citizen-units May and Denning, but rather upon whether our
> mathematics is more powerful than their jackbooted thugs.
What I found interesting was the lack of meat behind
"Crypto Anarchy is Not Inevitable". It seemed to boil
down to the vacuous "if everyone could just agree that key
escrow is a good thing, there would be no problem".
Cheers,
Peter Monta pmonta@qualcomm.com
Qualcomm, Inc./Globalstar
