Mon, 5 Oct 92. I remember this post well. Time flies...
--Lucky Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Anytime you decrypt: that's against the law".
Jack Valenti, President, Motion Picture Association of America in
a sworn deposition, 2000-06-06
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
> Of Anonymous
> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 21:23
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: A statement of purpose
>
>
> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 00:21:34 -0700
> X-Loop: openpgp.net
> From: Eric Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: A statement of purpose
>
> I've had a bunch of people ask me about the group and what it's up to.
> Accordingly, I drafted a small statement of purpose to send to folks.
>
> Please comment.
>
> Eric
>
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> The cypherpunks list is a forum for discussion about technological
> defenses for privacy in the digital domain.
>
> Cypherpunks assume privacy is a good thing and wish there were more
> of it. Cypherpunks acknowledge that those who want privacy must
> create it for themselves and not expect governments, corporations, or
> other large, faceless organizations to grant them privacy out of
> beneficence. Cypherpunks know that people have been creating their
> own privacy for centuries with whispers, envelopes, closed doors, and
> couriers. Cypherpunks do not seek to prevent other people from
> speaking about their experiences or their opinions.
>
> The most important means to the defense of privacy is encryption. To
> encrypt is to indicate the desire for privacy. But to encrypt with
> weak cryptography is to indicate not too much desire for privacy.
> Cypherpunks hope that all people desiring privacy will learn how best
> to defend it.
>
> Cypherpunks are therefore devoted to cryptography. Cypherpunks wish
> to learn about it, to teach it, to implement it, and to make more of
> it. Cypherpunks know that cryptographic protocols make social
> structures. Cypherpunks know how to attack a system and how to
> defend it. Cypherpunks know just how hard it is to make good
> cryptosystems.
>
> Cypherpunks love to practice. They love to play with public key
> cryptography. They love to play with anonymous and pseudonymous mail
> forwarding and delivery. They love to play with DC-nets. They love
> to play with secure communications of all kinds.
>
> Cypherpunks write code. They know that someone has to write code to
> defend privacy, and since it's their privacy, their going to write
> it. Cypherpunks publish their code so that their fellow cypherpunks
> may practice and play with it. Cypherpunks realize that security is
> not built in a day and are patient with incremental progress.
>
> Cypherpunks don't care if you don't like the software they write.
> Cypherpunks know that software can't be destroyed. Cypherpunks know
> that a widely dispersed system can't be shut down.
>
> Cypherpunks will make the networks safe for privacy.
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