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Re: Congress mulls crypto restrictions in response to attacks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bram Cohen)
Fri Sep 14 22:40:46 2001
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 23:32:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bram Cohen <bram@gawth.com>
To: Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com>
Cc: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>,
cryptography@wasabisystems.com
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On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Bill Frantz wrote:
> So the honorable gentlemen are proposing unilateral crypto disarmament? Or
> perhaps a world where many governments can read the business plans and
> strategies of US companies? Or perhaps a world where the terrorists
> themselves can read the travel plans of their targets?
Preliminary indications are that the terrorists communicated on perfectly
ordinary cell phones - it's dubious that they used any crypto at all.
-Bram Cohen
"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent"
-- John Maynard Keynes
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