[95] in Cypherpunks
npr report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J. Eric Townsend)
Fri Apr 30 16:13:37 1993
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 93 12:49:10 -0700
From: jet@nas.nasa.gov (J. Eric Townsend)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
from the NPR report:
> "The mechanism is very much like what the real estate agents do with
> houses. Right, they take you to show you a house and they don't have a
> key to that house in their pockets. But they get to the house, and
> there's a lock box hanging on the front door. And they have a master key
> in their pockets, and they open the lock box, and take out the key to the
> door, and open the front door, and go in and show you the house."
This is a *wonderful* analogy. Imagine if one could not buy a set of
locks for their house w/o buying the government lock-box to go beside
the front door.
