1993-09-11 - Re: Digital warfare

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <pmetzger@lehman.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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Message ID: <9309111519.AA15630@snark.lehman.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1993-09-11 15:28:07 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 11 Sep 93 08:28:07 PDT

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 93 08:28:07 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Digital warfare
In-Reply-To: <9309110410.AA06849@servo>
Message-ID: <9309111519.AA15630@snark.lehman.com>
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Phil Karn says:
> I want to echo Carl's sentiments. I do find talk about cryptographically
> enforced underground economies to be interesting, but scary as well
> precisely because I'm afraid of what the backlash might do to the
> cryptographically enforced personal privacy that I'm primarily
> interested in.

You have to accept that the tools for the one are the same as the
tools for the other. Its reasonable to not want to emphasize both, but
its unreasonable to assume that the enemy doesn't already know that
both are done with the same algorithms. If this worries you, come up
with your arguments now -- you will need them later.

Perry

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• 1993-09-11 (Fri, 10 Sep 93 18:02:55 PDT) - Re: Digital warfare - cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison)
  • 1993-09-11 (Fri, 10 Sep 93 18:32:55 PDT) - Re: Digital warfare - “Perry E. Metzger” <pmetzger@lehman.com>
  • 1993-09-11 (Fri, 10 Sep 93 21:17:58 PDT) - Digital warfare - karn@qualcomm.com (Phil Karn)
    • 1993-09-11 (Fri, 10 Sep 93 22:13:50 PDT) - Re: Digital warfare - Jim McCoy <mccoy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>
      • 1993-09-11 (Fri, 10 Sep 93 22:53:50 PDT) - Re: Digital warfare - “L. Detweiler” <ld231782@longs.lance.colostate.edu>
        • 1993-09-11 (Sat, 11 Sep 93 08:24:07 PDT) - Re: Digital warfare - Da Mystic Homeboy <praveen@carina.unm.edu>
          • 1993-09-11 (Sat, 11 Sep 93 10:13:07 PDT) - Re: Digital warfare - bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
          • 1993-09-11 (Sat, 11 Sep 93 12:08:09 PDT) - Re: Digital warfare - bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
          • 1993-09-12 (Sun, 12 Sep 93 15:24:24 PDT) - Re: Digital warfare - Jonathan Axelrad <jaxelrad@crl.com>
      • 1993-09-11 (Sat, 11 Sep 93 08:38:06 PDT) - Re: Digital warfare - “Perry E. Metzger” <pmetzger@lehman.com>
    • 1993-09-11 (Sat, 11 Sep 93 08:28:07 PDT) - Re: Digital warfare - “Perry E. Metzger” <pmetzger@lehman.com>