Anonypus wrote:
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# Wired reports at
# http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34376,00.html:
#
# > ARLINGTON, Virginia -- Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky pressed
# > China Wednesday to abandon its restrictions on encryption technology,
# > which curb sales of everything from software to mobile phones.
# >
# > She said her U.S. negotiators have repeatedly pressed China authorities
# > to reform these rules and also dismissed Chinese efforts to restrict
# > information over the Internet as futile.
The U.S. is a hypocrite, plain and simple.
Anonypus wrote:
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# Folks, the crypto war is being won, slowly but surely. For years
# doomsayers have predicted the eventual criminalization of crypto usage.
# But the actual trends have consistently been in the opposite direction.
In today's Wired, Declan reports:
#
# Repeating a long-standing theme, Freeh said
# data-scrambling encryption products posed a
# real danger to police, who needed access to
# descrambled documents or communications.
What does that sound like to you?
Also in today's Wired:
#
# Britain is likely to become
# the first country in the world to make
# imprisonment a possible consequence of refusing
# to surrender, or even losing, one's private
# encryption keys.
Let's define a solution for the latter.
Extra unused keys, files which you lost the encryption
key to...yielding plausible denyability. This design
stated in a README file in directories holding encrypted
material, along with some sort of comment on doing it
at all.
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Anonypus wrote:
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# The cypherpunk movement has been tainted for too
# many years by naysayers and downright nutcases whose
# paranoid conspiracy fantasies have twisted their view
# of reality.
You mean someone besides Tim May buried gold in the ground
in preparation for the breakdown of civilization?
GO
;-)
