[4907] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Fwd: Britain to ban free use of crypto
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gene Hardesty)
Thu Mar 27 04:08:47 1997
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 16:10:18 -0900
From: Gene Hardesty <geneh@surfline.ne.jp>
Reply-To: geneh@surfline.ne.jp
To: Jacob Rose <jacob@whiteshell.com>
CC: Doug Breault <dbreault@ns.sprintout.com>,
Jeremey Barrett <jeremey@veriweb.com>, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
> Just what we need, comparison of crypto to munitions. Remember how we
> keep telling Them they're unrelated? There's a reason for that. Guns are
> designed to kill people. Crypto is designed to secret information. You
> can't commit murder with an encryption algorithm. You can accidentally do
> so with a gun.
Indirectly, it can. (Spy-stuff).
Zeros....
--
My PGP public keys can be found at
http://www.geocities/Tokyo/5536/KeyX.txt
where X is the number (0-9).
Example: http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/5536/Key0.txt
