[9455] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: CDR: Re: anonymous digital cash and other (now) iffy stuff
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Sun Sep 23 10:59:40 2001
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 08:56:58 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
To: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com
Cc: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>,
Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs@philodox.com>,
cryptography@wasabisystems.com, cyberia-l@listserv.aol.com,
hallam@ai.mit.edu, cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com, ryan@havenco.com
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No, it's the lack of a credible threat of such a system being put in
place. Once the system is in place it is too late to impliment crypto to
recover.
There are other similar cause-effect logic errors in your arguments as
well.
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Ryan Lackey wrote:
> The greatest enemy of secure electronic mail, for instance, being widely
> deployed is the LACK of widespread monitoring. If every internet
> connection in the US were monitored actively, and the contents were
> routinely used in civil and criminal legal actions, technologies
> like ZKS Freedom, PGP, SSL would be in far wider use than they are now.
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