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Re: Registering keys

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From: Timothy C. May
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:27
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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...
: 

Not if they charge, say, $15 per key registered.

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.

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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