Criminalizing crypto criticism

[pasward at big.uwaterloo.ca]

David Jablon writes:
 > 
 > Yet, on a sad note, public crypto research has to stop.
 > One might think it could survive in purely academic circles.
 > But no, you'd have to be a fool to criticise even an academic paper.
 > Anybody, perhaps the resentful author, could co-opt the work for 
 > Copy Protection, and off to jail you go.
 > 
 > We seem to be entering the twilight zone -- the end of an exciting,
 > but brief era -- of public cryptography.

There is life outside the USA.



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