EFF Quote of the Week #2, 12/20/93, Inman on Crypto

[Stanton McCandlish <mech@eff.org>]

"Society has recognized over time that certain kinds of scientific inquiry
can endanger society as a whole and has applied either directly, or through
scientific/ethical constraints, restrictions on the kind and amount of
research that can be done in those areas."

-- Adm. Bobby R. Inman (then CIA Dep. Dir.) in a February, 1982 article for
_Aviation_Week_and_Space_Technology_ on why cryptographic research should
be limited to government scientists.  Full text of this article is
available for anonymous ftp from ftp.eff.org as
pub/EFF/Policy/Crypto/inman.article.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation believes that individuals have the right
to protect their private communications by any method they choose - without
government interference.

For more information about the Electronic Frontier Foundation, send mail to
info@eff.org.

-- 
Stanton McCandlish * mech@eff.org * Electronic Frontier Found. OnlineActivist
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