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Re: Hijackers' e-mails were unencrypted

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Fields)
Wed Oct 3 18:46:13 2001

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To: ji@research.att.com
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
From: Adam Fields <fields@surgam.net>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 Oct 2001 14:40:13 EDT."
             <200110031840.OAA05851@bual.research.att.com> 
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 17:59:33 -0400


ji@research.att.com says:
> I can just see it coming --
> 
> "their email was in the clear and we still coudln't find them; imagine
> how much harder it will be when everybody uses cryptography."
> 
> I don't think we can win either way.

Of course, when everybody uses state-sanctioned security, the protocol
will automatically forward a "suspicion digest index" to the
appropriate authorities, allowing for easy sifting and sorting by
threat level.

				- Adam

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