[79793] in Cypherpunks
Re: Stego Cash?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (frissell@panix.com)
Sat May 10 15:48:30 1997
From: frissell@panix.com
Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 12:49:31 -0400
To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <v03007801af984c267819@[207.167.93.63]>
Reply-To: frissell@panix.com
At 07:42 PM 5/8/97 -0800, Tim May wrote:
>At 3:38 PM -0800 5/8/97, kqb@planet.net wrote:
>>What does it take to set up an offshore "remailer bank"? Of course,
>>the digital cash it uses must be very INefficient, chock full of bit
>>bloat that hosts plenty of not-so-subliminal channels. 8-)
>
>You hit the nail on the head with your last line: subliminal channels.
>
>Even financial software, ostensibly with no export controls, will still
>have to be vetted for export, as any system usable for financial
>cryptography is almost certainly usable for "other purposes."
My old line courtesy of a DYAM (Dead Yellow Asian Male):
"Revolutionaries swim like fish in the sea of commerce."
DCF
