How to ban crypto?

[Carl Ellison]

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At 05:26 PM 9/16/2001 +0100, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
>Bin-Laden was at one time said to use stego in posted images for
>comms.  

I heard that restated today on NPR by an ex-FBI commentator.

I think it is ironic that Congress passed a law a while ago that
discourages crypto researchers from studying and publishing how to
detect and defeat stego systems.

Of course, terrorists won't use watermarking stego systems, but the
discouragement of researchers in one area of stego is likely to
discourage them in another (or in cryptography in general).


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