Re: Registering "Assault Keys"

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From: Jonathan Magid
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 01:44

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In article <1992Oct30.033830.24244@netcom.com> gurgle@netcom.com (Pete Gontier) writes:
>tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May) writes:
>
>>Registering "Assault Keys" -- How the Proposal to Register Encryption
>>Keys Has Ominous Parallels to Gun Control
>
>It may. It may.
>
>On the other hand, I don't think a seven-year-old boy is about
>to shoot his six-year-old sister with an encryption key because
>he didn't understand death.
>-- 

On the other hand, if he uses a one way encryption algorithm
on her, she has equally little chance of recovery.

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