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In article <unruh.720338918@physics.ubc.ca> unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh) writes:
>tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May) writes:
>
>>Registering "Assault Keys" -- How the Proposal to Register Encryption
>>Keys Has Ominous Parallels to Gun Control
>
>If crypt really is like guns,
>whose only use is to kill lots of innocent people

Whether you know better or not, there are quite a few people who really do
believe what you've written above.  For the benefit of those people I must
ask how, if the only use of a gun is to kill lots of innocent people, can
the creation of an army be justified?

>[Note for those of you unable to see through sarcasm, I do not think
>that cryptography and guns have any similarity at all.

Either of them, in the hands of the people at large, make it more difficult
for a totalitarian government to control its subjects.

>I doubt greatly that any
>attempt to regulate cryptography in the manner suggested would work,

That depends on what you mean by "work".  We seem to agree that the
restrictions we're talking about won't do what their backers claim:
prevent large criminal organizations from using very advanced cryptography.
They could, however, stop people like me; I'm worried that that's the
point.

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Geff Underwood
geff@iastate.edu