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Article #1623Re: Limits on the Use of Cryptography?
From: Steven Bellovin
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:32
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:32
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In article <1992Nov12.003306.17491@src.umd.edu>, tedwards@eng.umd.edu (Thomas Grant Edwards) writes: > "P.C." needs for crytography... > > * protection of communication between homosexuals who wish to > remain in the closet, especially those in the armed forces Well, come January 20 I think that that ``especially'' will change... Be that as it may, we have our own examples very close to home (or to $HOME). A number of newsgroups feature ``anonymous contact services'', with the attendant worries about the security of those services. Indeed, the code for one of them was just posted to a source newsgroup. PGP can do a lot better -- the contact service just becomes a key registry, and encrypted email can even be posted to some group like alt.personals.gerbils.pgp. Anonymous posting then becomes as simple as an open NNTP port.
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt,alt.society.civil-liberty Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!sgiblab!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!att!dptg!ulysses!ulysses!smb From: smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin) Subject: Re: Limits on the Use of Cryptography? Message-ID: <1992Nov12.153227.4949@ulysses.att.com> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:32:27 GMT References: <1992Nov11.061210.9933@cactus.org> <1dre8mINNhfk@transfer.stratus.com> <1992Nov12.003306.17491@src.umd.edu> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 17