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Re: Arguments for good crypto and against GAK.
At 03:00 PM 6/5/97 -6, Peter Trei wrote:
>In short, it's possible to pro-crypto, anti-GAK
>without ever getting near sounding anti-government;
>in fact, being pro-crypto, anti-GAK can be a
>conservative, anti-crime, law & order position.
Yup.
Let me add one more I just posted to the cryptography list.
When you have non-GAK strong crypto for criminals to use, they (like the
rest of us) will be seduced into believing that they have privacy and will
loosen their tongues. As a result, more and better intelligence will be
available over that communications channel. For the proportion of cases
where the person on the other side is an agent or someone turned by threat
of prosecution, this intelligence falls into the hands of law enforcement.
Even better, this person who is reporting to LE is remote from the real
criminal(s), so he is in substantially less danger of being frisked to
discover a wire.
- Carl
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