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Article #1843Re: The Tao and Cryptography
From: Dave Gordon
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:56
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:56
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In <69501@cup.portal.com> Christopher_C_Lapp@cup.portal.com writes: > >The cryptographic system chosen by an organization reflects the philosophy >and technology adopted by that organization. It reflects how far up the >mountain path of "Truth" the organization has traveled. At the top of the >mountain are undetectable, uncrackable, totally understandable cryptosystems >that are based on fundamental, universal principles of cotion. As on >e decends from this ideal, methods that reflect an imperfect understanding >of reality, imperfect technology, and imperfect commtion, indeed, an >imperfect philosophy borne of an imperfect spirit are adopted by an organizat > >of dictators are compared to cryptosystems of democracies, and cryptosystems >of terrorists. I think that even if you can't immdeiately crack an unknown >code, this type of analysis would tell you much about the philosophy and >predisposition to deception and other assumptions the crypographer was making >about his advesaries and his audience. >Any comments? Yes: please supply the encryption key you have used, so that we can all decode this into English! :-) -- =============================================================================== Dave | dsg@imp.co.uk | +44 753 516599 | "C^i tio ne estas .subskribo" ===============================================================================
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!sgiblab!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!mrccrc!warwick!pipex!ibmpcug!impmh!dsg From: dsg@impmh.uucp (Dave Gordon) Subject: Re: The Tao and Cryptography Message-ID: <1992Nov17.165653.27404@impmh.uucp> Organization: Integrated Micro Products Ltd References: <69501@cup.portal.com> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:56:53 GMT Lines: 26