1992-10-27 - Re: A Trial Balloon to Ban Encryption?

Header Data

From: gnu
To: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May), cypherpunks
Message Hash: 26b81383c805929e3c002c3f7836848983275fee0cf94a079d7717bfd346d887
Message ID: <9210270908.AA00325@toad.com>
Reply To: <9210261819.AA07688@netcom2.netcom.com>
UTC Datetime: 1992-10-27 09:08:56 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 27 Oct 92 02:08:56 PPE

Raw message

From: gnu
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 92 02:08:56 PPE
To: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May), cypherpunks
Subject: Re: A Trial Balloon to Ban Encryption?
In-Reply-To: <9210261819.AA07688@netcom2.netcom.com>
Message-ID: <9210270908.AA00325@toad.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain


> I think it was John Gilmore who said: "If encryption is outlawed, only
> outlaws will have encryption."

Maybe.  But I like John Perry Barlow's formulation better:

"You can have my encryption algorithm when you pry my cold dead fingers
from its private key."

	John

Thread

• Return to October 1992

• Return to “gnu”

• Return to “tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)”

• 1992-10-26 (Mon, 26 Oct 92 11:22:35 PPE) - (fwd) A Trial Balloon to Ban Encryption? - tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
  • 1992-10-27 (Tue, 27 Oct 92 02:08:56 PPE) - Re: A Trial Balloon to Ban Encryption? - gnu