[FYI] Did Encryption Empower These Terrorists?

[David Honig]

At 11:50 AM 9/17/01 +0200, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
>Which politician would dare to ban hotels?

Which politician would fail to support mandatory registration of
motel occupants with local 'authorities'?


>[Moderator's note: Everyone who's got a copy of Netscape or IE has
>cryptographic software in their hands, and most of them have used it.
--Perry]

Which politicians would fail to support only govt-authorized
SSL servers?

And up til Tuesday, copy control tech & law was top news.  
So that kind of crypto app is moving into entertainment-deployment
as well as online-purchasing.  But that's dedicated-use crypto.

A politician who wants to license sysops who use SSH to 
administer securely and remotely?  It could happen.


>And, beyond that, we have to keep in mind a certain detail:
>
>Air planes, telephones, hotel rooms, rental cars are "civil"
>equipment. In contrast to that, cryptography is a 
>"martial art". It's history shows that it has been used for
>military purposes for centuries, but far less than a century for
>private purposes. 

Wrong.  Secret and hidden writing is almost as old as writing.
See e.g., Singh's _Secret Codes_, or Kahn, etc.







 






  







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