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- From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Subject: Re: Are DES restriction even logically sound?
- In-Reply-To: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.094451.4179@nntp.hut.fi>
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- Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- References: <1992Sep5.164646.21443@uwm.edu> <1992Sep6.071901.21881@uwm.edu> <1992Sep6.094022.28262@uwm.edu> <18h94qINNlkq@early-bird.think.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 09:44:51 GMT
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- >enemies (encryption devices are considered to be weapons -- remember, the
- >development of computers was catalyzed by the use of encryption during
- >WWII), and selling working implementations of DES is considered
- >facilitation. There are also published articles that detail how to build
- >bombs, yet the government also controls their export as well.
-
- Hey, that means that there won't be laws against encryption in USA,
- since the second amendment guarantees to right to keep and bear arms.
- Or perhaps it was a misprint and the right was only to keep bear arms
- after all, since other kinds of arms have many restrictions even
- today. Bummer - but perhaps someone can design an encryption
- algorithm which is to be used against bears, and so you guys in USA
- would be guaranteed to use that freely?
-
- //Jyrki
-