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I presume we all agree that we should move towards some form of secure
email and some means of exchanging public keys.  There are a number of
other cryptographic services we could ask for.  I presume we do NOT all
agree on exactly what form they should take.

How do you think we should take advantage of cryptography in the next
generation network?  What tools would you use?  What organization?  Is
there anything you want particularly to avoid?  I think it's important
for us to develop a more accurate vision of what it is that we want.
Otherwise, how will people know what to implement for us?

A laundry list of the stuff I think would be useful:

   Basic tools: RSA, DES, MD5
   Basic services:  secure mail, digital signatures, key distribution
   Additional services: untraceable mail, anonymous mail/posting,
       untraceable electronic cash, electronic contracts with legal standing,
       secure posting of announcements that are guaranteed to be seen by 
       either everyone or no one, cryptographic voting

I think it's also important that workstations become more secure, via
digital fingerprinting of files on disk and better encapsulation and
division between trusted and non-trusted software.

What is your vision of what we should be striving for?


[ Marc Ringuette | Cranberry Melon University, Cucumber Science Department  ]
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