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  3. From: ebrandt@jarthur.claremont.edu (Eli Brandt)
  4. Subject: Re: A Copper Balloon
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov11.224434.5499@muddcs.claremont.edu>
  6. Sender: news@muddcs.claremont.edu (The News System)
  7. Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
  8. References: <1992Nov7.142220.1683@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu> <1dm50cINNcse@transfer.stratus.com> <1992Nov10.090133.1707@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu>
  9. Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:44:34 GMT
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  11.  
  12. In article <1992Nov10.090133.1707@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu> denning@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu writes:
  13. >Whatever regulation, if any, might be considered, it would seem that
  14. >it would have to be aimed mostly at crypto products, not use.
  15.  
  16. That is, it would affect law-abiding people who just want to use
  17. off-the-shelf black-box GTE KryptoFones.  It would not affect anyone
  18. who has the incentive -- e.g. fear of jail -- to hack together a
  19. system from a few PC's and modems, and some crypto software snarfed
  20. from Finland.
  21.  
  22. Sure, if the bad guy talks in the clear on a standard phone line,
  23. your third-party listening scheme can nail him.  But we can do that
  24. anyway -- and according to the government's numbers, we only do it a
  25. trivial number of times a year.
  26.  
  27. ObCrypto: Assuming government good-faith in an eavesdropping
  28.       protocol is like assuming algorithm secrecy in a
  29.       cryptographic protocol.
  30.  
  31. >Dorothy Denning
  32.  
  33.    Eli   ebrandt@jarthur.claremont.edu
  34.  
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