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- From: denning@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu
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- Subject: Re: A Copper Balloon
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.090133.1707@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 09:01:33 -0500
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- Carl Ellison gave a good description of the algorithm I had in mind.
- One possible extension would be for the parties to pass their values
- both ways around the loop for redundancy, but this would increase the
- overhead.
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- While I appreciate that some people prefer to answer the question
- "can/should crypto be regulated" with a blanket NO, I prefer to first
- get a better idea of what crypto options might be available and the
- conditions, if any, under which they might be appropriate. I am also
- not content to let society drift in the direction of completely
- unregulated crypto without attempting to understand the consequences
- of that from the view of LE as well as the view of protecting privacy
- and proprietary interests.
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- Whatever regulation, if any, might be considered, it would seem that
- it would have to be aimed mostly at crypto products, not use.
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- Dorothy Denning
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