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Article #2478Re: PKP/RSA comments on P
From: Dick Zeitlin
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 12:04
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 12:04
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DS = David Sternlight
DS> .Steve Gardner's response that nobody is harmed by cryptography is
> .appalling. Consider the lives lost or saved through cryptographic
> .activities during wars, anti-terrorism, drug enforcement, etc.
I believe you're using "cryptography" in the above statement where it
would be more accurate and appropriate to use "message concealment."
Cryptography is certainly one mechanism for message concealment, but
there are many others. I hope you're not suggesting that all message
concealment should be discouraged.
Once you allow for message concealment, you should allow for _effective_
message concealment, by the "good guys" as well as the "bad guys."
Somehow the definitions of "good guys" and "bad guys" seem to be very
dynamic.
D/
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!hotmomma!acc1bbs!dick.zeitlin From: dick.zeitlin%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Dick Zeitlin) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: PKP/RSA comments on P Message-ID: <931.204.uupcb@ssr.com> Date: 22 Dec 92 12:04:00 GMT Distribution: world Organization: Advanced Computer Concepts BBS, New Rochelle, NY 914-654-1981 Reply-To: dick.zeitlin%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Dick Zeitlin) Lines: 21