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Article #86Re: A Trial Balloon to Ban Encryption?
From: Jyrki Kuoppala
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 17:11
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 17:11
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In article <1cjrskINNd2@gap.caltech.edu>, hal@cco (Hal Finney) writes: >I also think it's interesting that these proposals appear just as public- >key cryptography is starting to become widespread, with the forthcoming >release of PEM, and such packages as Riordan's RIPEM and Zimmermann's PGP >starting to spread. The government never tried to get us to "escrow" our >DES keys, for some reason. Maybe they didn't need to; maybe the rumors >that the government could break DES were true all along. Otherwise why >is this idea appearing now instead of fifteen years ago? Perhaps because with DES as such, key distribution was difficult enough to make it hard to use by masses? With tools like PGP this is changing and key distribution is easy. //Jyrki
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!paladin.american.edu!news.univie.ac.at!hp4at!mcsun!news.funet.fi!funic!nntp.hut.fi!usenet From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) Subject: Re: A Trial Balloon to Ban Encryption? In-Reply-To: hal@cco.caltech.edu (Hal Finney) Message-ID: <1992Oct28.171144.29716@nntp.hut.fi> Sender: usenet@nntp.hut.fi (Usenet pseudouser id) Nntp-Posting-Host: laphroaig.cs.hut.fi Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland References: <1992Oct26.180813.7002@netcom.com> <1cjrskINNd2@gap.caltech.edu> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 17:11:44 GMT Lines: 14