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At 10:48 AM 7/24/94 -0400, tim werner wrote:
>>From: [email protected] (Timothy C. May)
>>Date: Sat, 23 Jul 1994 11:40:19 -0700 (PDT)
>
>>But I do like the explicit emphasis of the connection between
>>encyption and free speech; this is the line I use with people. To wit,
>>"Nobody can tell me what language I have to write or speak in."
>
>This is a neat way of expressing a good idea, but I wouldn't count on it.
>A language can probably be construed as something that can be understood by
>anyone who learns it. Even though I speak PGP, I still can't understand
>what you say without a key.
SophistMode(on)
Hate to pick nits here, but isn't the acquisition and use of a public key
"teaching" your machine to read Tim's "language"?
Holmes and Blackstone are probably spinning in their graves (in
counterrotation, to boot).
Bob
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