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- From: gardner@convex.com (Steve Gardner)
- Subject: Re: Mr. Leichter and the Law
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- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.024356.27989@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 02:43:56 GMT
- References: <1992Oct28.111437.1@zodiac.rutgers.edu> <1992Oct29.020013.5458@shearson.com> <1992Oct29.162712.1@zodiac.rutgers.edu>
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- In article <1992Oct29.162712.1@zodiac.rutgers.edu> leichter@zodiac.rutgers.edu writes:
- >Fine. Let's apply the same precedent to cryptography: If you refuse to
- >reveal your key, the government may make any reasonable claim about what
- >the cleartext is. It is then your obligation to prove that the cleartext
- >is something different. Would that make you happy?
- Okay. I'll use an XOR with a one time pad. When the government
- guys ask me for the key I will then produce a key that makes the
- encrypted text decrypt to: "Hi Mom. Loved your apple pie.
- How's uncle Jim. Love, Stevie.".
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- By the way, you sound like you approve of the government minding
- everyone's business. I hate to find fault but gosh that
- attitude offends me. I think it would have offended those who
- wrote our (US) constitution too. They, unlike you, didn't trust
- government to not become corrupt and therefore fall into the
- hands of a few. Our founding fathers knew that the few would use
- the powers of government to arrogate the resources of the
- many to serve the few.
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