[48235] in Cypherpunks
Re: Denning's misleading statements
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Graves)
Fri Jan 26 22:53:53 1996
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 19:49:18 -0800 (PST)
From: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960126222026.8591A-100000@reggae.src.umd.edu>
On Fri, 26 Jan 1996, Thomas Grant Edwards wrote:
> I think the big bait-and-switch is her description of the various
> companies falling over themselves to get to _VOLUNTARY_ key escrow to
> avoid losing data and protecting themselves against employee problems
> versus _MANDATORY_GOVERNMENT_ key escrow to ensure that individuals
> cannot hide information from the government.
>
> Key escrow is good. Key escrow against your will is bad.
Yo.
I especially enjoyed this sentence: "Individuals would be allowed to
develop their own encryption systems for personal or educational use
without obtaining licenses, though they could not distribute them to
others."
It's unclear whether it's OK to share books, algorithms, and source code;
or if it is, what's the point?
Outlaw cryptography, and only cryptographers and outlaws will have
cryptography.
-rich
