From: wcs@anchor.ho.att.com (bill.stewart@pleasantonca.ncr.com +1-510-484-6204)
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 93 23:27:05 PST
To: mnemonic@eff.org
Subject: Re:  The Cyber Lexicon of 2030 AD
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Mike - 

A technical comment - the version posted to cypherpunks has a lot of
Macintoshy punctuation metacharacters left in it, e.g. Q J R S representing
various quote marks and such.

As for the contents, I may or may not get around to writing  a real response,
but I certainly *hope* that by 2030 we've got digital signatures and such
run by the free market and not by the Government, even if it does shrink,
and that the Government Printing Office is reduced to the small job of
publishing everything the government does.  The business about
"black banks" providing non-governmentally controlled signatures being
unstable because they can't maintain the integrity of their signature schemes
is not very credible, unless the governemnt manages to ban them -
as long as you have an institution large enough to be relatively immune to
bribery and rubber-hose cryptanalysis, it's easy enough to protect
the integrity of your signatures.  A much more credible scenario is
a "Web of Trust" model where many of the major players may very well be
government-run (if the central banks haven't collapsed and the phone
companies haven't been privatized) for smaller non-free countries,
and mixtures of governmental, NGOs, major financial institutions,
and MicroSoft Inc./AG/SA/Ltd.


BTW, what's fof.org?

		Thanks;  Bill
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