On 12/21/2015 12:55 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:
On 21 Dec 2015, at 17:20, Robert Withers <[email protected]> wrote:
On 12/21/2015 10:17 AM, Denis Kudriashov wrote:
2015-12-21 11:19 GMT+01:00 Robert Withers <[email protected]>:
governments cannot crack it.
Why it is disadvantage?
Governments stay in power, or exercise collective sovereignty, through
dominion, agency and possession. Loss of control over information, and by
extension currency, affects possession, or having control. They still have
dominion and agency, but without three legs you can build no stool to sit upon.
If loss of control over information and currency undermines possession, then
the concept of the modern nation-state is undermined. I view this as a negative.
This is not the place for politics, but cryptography is inherently linked to it.
Yes, exactly.
I must say that it really scares me if someone implementing all kinds of
cryptography thinks that 'the government' should be able to crack it. If that
is your opinion (I might understand you wrongly), than just write everything in
plain text and be done with it.
Firstly, we learn: DON'T PANIC! ;) Seriously, don't be scared. I did
not say I thought government should crack it, just that I can view it as
a negative. They should absolutely NOT be able to crack it, but we'd
better come up with a plan.
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