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unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh) writes:

>>Registering "Assault Keys" -- How the Proposal to Register Encryption
>>Keys Has Ominous Parallels to Gun Control

>For those of us outside the USofA these analogies make us wonder whether
>such registration is not a good thing. If crypt really is like guns,
>whose only use is to kill lots of innocent people it seems, then maybe
>crypt were better strictly controlled. 

Gee Willie, I've used my guns to kill innumerable paper targets, a few
hundred steel silhouette critters, thousands of tin cans and a few 
game animals.  I have also used it once (without firing) to chase away
a carjacker.  If a gun is "only used to kill lots of innocent people",
how come I can do all these things?

>Ie, your arguement would be
>stronger if you limited yourself to the uses and abuses of cryptography
>and didn't engage in the silly American penchant for seeing yourselves oa
>as lone cowboys out to right wrongs no matter how many people get killed
>in the crossfire.

Yep, we're the lone cowboys the world runs to when they get their asses
in the wringer.


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

You are blind.  Both firearms and personal crypto are means of thwarting
government opression and empowering the individual.

John

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