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Criminalizing crypto criticism
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (pasward@big.uwaterloo.ca)
Fri Jul 27 10:16:09 2001
From: <pasward@big.uwaterloo.ca>
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Message-ID: <15201.24669.727475.148531@tolstoy.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 08:36:45 -0400
To: David Jablon <dpj@world.std.com>
Cc: Matt Blaze <mab@research.att.com>, cryptography@wasabisystems.com
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010726220131.04f17e30@world.std.com>
David Jablon writes:
>
> Yet, on a sad note, public crypto research has to stop.
> One might think it could survive in purely academic circles.
> But no, you'd have to be a fool to criticise even an academic paper.
> Anybody, perhaps the resentful author, could co-opt the work for
> Copy Protection, and off to jail you go.
>
> We seem to be entering the twilight zone -- the end of an exciting,
> but brief era -- of public cryptography.
There is life outside the USA.
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