I believe the government's stance is not so much to deny the individual strong encryption tools, but rather to prevent or retard it's dissemination to foreign governments whose traffic, shall we say, we prefer to be breakable. In my opinion, that's the long and short of the "why."
Does this cost us as individuals the right to use strong encryption? Sure. Big deal. It's part of what keeps us safe in the country we live in. If we'd spent a little bit more money on intelligence over the last 5 years, Sept. 11th wouldn't have happened. Just because we're not engaged actively in a war at the moment doesn't mean that we don't have enemies. If not having 1024-bit encryption available to send my private information over the web is the part of the cost, I can live with that. -----Original Message----- From: Jay D. Dyson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 7:51 AM To: Davis, Don (CPOCEUR) Cc: Security-Basics List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: strong encryption - governments denying individuals the right to use -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Davis, Don (CPOCEUR) wrote: > I beg to differ; any stance is defensible. While we can't argue that opinion, but I would like to see your counterpoints to the points which were enumerated in my original reply. That something may be defensible is a matter of debate which rests upon the logic and fact utilized to buttress the defense. If the logic is flawed and the facts are in error, then there is no actual defense and the original assertion on the matter being indefensible stands. - -Jay ( ( _______ )) )) .--"There's always time for a good cup of coffee"--. >====<--. C|~~|C|~~| (>------ Jay D. Dyson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------<) | = |-' `--' `--' `- O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. - Voltaire -' `------' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (SunOS) Comment: See http://www.treachery.net/~jdyson/ for current keys. iEYEARECAAYFAjzM3y4ACgkQGI2IHblM+8E0sQCfZq/uHzHidOrLlnhl6I+RxlcJ EmgAn3dEY0I+jtPcn1IOQMAkk4MpIRcF =Z8tc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
