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Re: The Tao and Cryptography

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From: Dave Gordon
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:56
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In <69501@cup.portal.com> Christopher_C_Lapp@cup.portal.com writes:
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>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! :-)
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From: dsg@impmh.uucp (Dave Gordon)
Subject: Re: The Tao and Cryptography
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