[112] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Cats Out of Bags
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sameer)
Fri Jan 31 14:39:56 1997
From: sameer <sameer@c2.net>
To: stewarts@ix.netcom.com (Bill Stewart)
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 11:50:10 -0800 (PST)
Cc: frissell@panix.com, cypherpunks@toad.com, cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <199701311357.FAA14264@toad.com> from Bill Stewart at "Jan 31, 97 00:10:44 am"
> > "Other governments were upset with the 56-bit export allowance.
> > They said it was going to undermine their national security."
>
> On this point, the other governments are correct.
> It really _is_ tougher to maintain a nation-state when your
> former subjects can have private conversations with each other
> and with other governments' former subjects......
> And even 56 bits is a start.
Full strength crypto is already available worldwide. It makes
not one iota of difference.
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