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- From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
- Subject: Re: Registering keys
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.202745.10452@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
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- References: <Nmq4TB1w165w@utopia.hacktic.nl>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:27:45 GMT
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- garfield (garfield@utopia.hacktic.nl) wrote:
- : Why all the fuss about registering keys?? If they want them.. give them
- : what they want.. If everyone registeres 10 or 15 keys and each key is 10K
- : in size.... Then they have a slight problem of storage...
- :
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- Not if they charge, say, $15 per key registered.
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- Seriously, arguments about flooding the key registration system with
- 10 keys, or 10^10 keys, fail to take into account the likely fees,
- paperwork, filing requirements, etc.
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- And the real effect is, as I have written about it elsewhere, to limit
- the use of crypto in general, not to cover all situations. A chilling
- effect, indeed.
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- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
- tcmay@netcom.com | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
- 408-688-5409 | knowledge, reputations, information markets,
- W.A.S.T.E.: Aptos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments.
- Higher Power: 2^756839 | PGP Public Key: awaiting Macintosh version.
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