[80618] in Cypherpunks
Re: Crypto use to foil law enforcement?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Fri May 23 12:34:17 1997
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970523032158.00a8d9e0@cybercash.com>
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 10:50:00 -0400
To: Carl Ellison <cme@cybercash.com>, Greg Broiles <gbroiles@c2.net>
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
At 3:21 am -0400 on 5/23/97, Carl Ellison wrote:
> With the congress so woefully uninformed that they confuse password
> protection with cryptography and naive enough to believe that 1.9E6
> possibilities represents a serious roadblock to entry, it looks like we have
> a major education effort to perform.
For 35 years we've sown innumeracy, and now it's time to reap the harvest,
I'm afraid.
Heinlein once half-jokingly proposed that all voters have to prove they can
solve a quadratic before they can vote.
That joke's not so funny anymore.
Cheers,
Bob Hettinga
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