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Re: Congress mulls crypto restrictions in response to attacks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bram Cohen)
Sat Sep 15 13:04:51 2001
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 00:23:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bram Cohen <bram@gawth.com>
To: Jim McCoy <mccoy@io.com>
Cc: Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com>,
Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>, cryptography@wasabisystems.com
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On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Jim McCoy wrote:
> It is well known and documented that these cells use PGP and stego tools
> when necessary
The only cases I've ever read of crypto being used by illegal cells has
been encrypting of hard drives - certainly a use of crypto, but not one
which might have helped the world trade center terrorists avoid getting
caught - encrypting hard drives is for damage mitigation, and we don't
have any evidence so far that intelligence was onto them in the least.
People in cells probably forego electronic communications completely for
highly sensitive information - face to face communication works fine and
doesn't involve anywhere near the risks.
-Bram Cohen
"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent"
-- John Maynard Keynes
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