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Re: Crypto APIs



At 04:29 PM 10/2/95 -0400, Matt Blaze wrote:
> It seems best to encourage the realistic
> side of NSA as much as possible...

Why? Surely the realists are more dangerous than the nuts.


> [...]
>
> In other
> words, the parts of the military that are concerned with actually
> securing communications want exactly what we want, and are just
> starting to realize it.

This does not necessarily protect our right to cryptography, any
more than it protects our right to full auto guns.


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