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- From: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight)
- Subject: Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.232704.13763@netcom.com>
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- References: <MOORE.92Dec16131218@defmacro.cs.utah.edu> <1992Dec17.002347.19216@netcom.com> <1992Dec17.223042.15115@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:27:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.223042.15115@news.eng.convex.com> gardner@convex.com (Steve Gardner) writes:
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- > The only intelligence collection damaged by secure cryptography
- > in the hands of citizens is intelligence collection that shouldn't
- > be done. You make it seem as if other governments would be deterred.
- > Of course not. Governments, which are the "legitimate" targets of
- > our spies can use secure cryptography with ABSOLUTELY NO FEAR OF
- > PROSECUTION. It is the unfortunate citizens of our incipient
- > police state that have to fear prosecution. The war being conducted
- > these days is not against foreign powers but against the citizens.
- > Anything that gives the citizen an edge in that war is GOOD.
-
- I'm afraid this is an oversimplification. There are many whom
- the government has reason to collect intelligence on who cannot
- use secure cryptography with no fear of prosecution.
-
- I sympathize with the desire for honest citizens to have secure
- cryptography. I count myself in that number. To believe this
- does not, however, mean that one should deny governments'
- legitimate interest in this matter, and their taking of
- cryptographic violations of munitions laws much more seriously
- than the building of airplane models.
-
- David
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