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Re: Fundamental Question?

To: [email protected] (Anthony Ortenzi)
Subject: Re: Fundamental Question?
From: Robert Rothenburg Walking-Owl <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 95 23:00:18 EST
Cc: [email protected]
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>; from "Anthony Ortenzi" at Feb 1, 95 1:56 pm
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Anthony Ortenzi wrote:
> 
> Although I understand the need for remailers for anonymity, is it not 
> true that the whole idea of encryption (good encryption, that is) is that 
> no matter who gets the encrypted text, it really doesn't matter?  Does 
> this not mean that something like USENET is *perfect* for this?

Well, it's happened in the past. Doesn't mean Usenet is perfect for it,
since nobody wants to sift through several thousand messages a day for
messages encrypted to him/her.  Also, imagine all the traffic sent to a
remailer duplicated on overy site that carries that Usenet group...

Rob

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