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Re: [FYI] Did Encryption Empower These Terrorists?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Mon Sep 17 13:13:18 2001
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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 09:00:04 -0700
To: Hadmut Danisch <hadmut@danisch.de>,
Jim Windle <jim_windle@eudoramail.com>
From: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
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At 11:50 AM 9/17/01 +0200, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
>Which politician would dare to ban hotels?
Which politician would fail to support mandatory registration of
motel occupants with local 'authorities'?
>[Moderator's note: Everyone who's got a copy of Netscape or IE has
>cryptographic software in their hands, and most of them have used it.
--Perry]
Which politicians would fail to support only govt-authorized
SSL servers?
And up til Tuesday, copy control tech & law was top news.
So that kind of crypto app is moving into entertainment-deployment
as well as online-purchasing. But that's dedicated-use crypto.
A politician who wants to license sysops who use SSH to
administer securely and remotely? It could happen.
>And, beyond that, we have to keep in mind a certain detail:
>
>Air planes, telephones, hotel rooms, rental cars are "civil"
>equipment. In contrast to that, cryptography is a
>"martial art". It's history shows that it has been used for
>military purposes for centuries, but far less than a century for
>private purposes.
Wrong. Secret and hidden writing is almost as old as writing.
See e.g., Singh's _Secret Codes_, or Kahn, etc.
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