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Re: How to ban crypto?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jei)
Mon Sep 17 11:25:17 2001
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 15:22:50 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Jei <jei@alpha.hut.fi>
To: Peter Fairbrother <peter.fairbrother@ntlworld.com>
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com, ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk
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On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
> Banning cryptography to deter terrorism, or controlling it to give
> GAK, is much in the news these days. I wonder if it could be done?
The noble goal of this "ban all crypto"-move, seems to be that all
messages should be understandable and readabe to everyone. Or at
least that is what *I* _decipher_ *their* _messages_ are intended
to mean.
Alas, to this day, even plain text english has not achieved this
worthy goal.
It is upto each recipient to ultimately decide what a message is,
and what it means.
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