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Re: Clipper Chip Banking
Toto <[email protected]> writes:
> [email protected] wrote:
>
> > Just as the "Clipper" proposal
> > (the Escrowed Encryption Standard) is a
> > system of encrypted communication with
> > a Big Brother peephole, so is Sandia e-
> > cash a system of digital cash with a
> > Big Brother peephole. It was designed
> > that way.
> > Why is Sandia interested in
> > digital cash systems? Well, Sandia is
> > responsible for all non-nuclear
> > components of nuclear weapons. The
> > security of nuclear weapons depends
> > partly on cryptology. The code-
> > breaking National Security Agency
> > (NSA), for example, is responsible for
> > the communication security of the
> > Minuteman missile, as well as the codes
> > by which the President must identify
> > himself to authorize a nuclear strike.
>
> The main benefit of the proposed Sadia system is that it will
> allow the President to do his banking while nuking the commies.
> Sound reasonable to me.
They do a lot of crypto at Sandia, and digital cash is an important
application of crypto.
This reminds me how about 10 years ago I and one guy from Sandia labs
wrote a very nice app for converting HP soft fonts into TeX fonts.
We posted it all over the Internet with source code (the only way I
distribute my apps). Well, a few months later I discovered that
some dandruff-covered sovok has been uploaing our app with our source
code, our comments, and the only change he made was to replace our
names by his filthy sovok name. (No, it wasn't Sameer Parekh -
Sameer is just as unethical, but he's an "Arab terrorist from
connecticut", not a sovok.)
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<a href="mailto:[email protected]">Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM</a>
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