From: eric@remailer.net (Eric Hughes)
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 95 10:09:41 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: essential characteristics of a Data Haven
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   From: Adam Feuer <adamfast@seanet.com>

   what differentiates a "data haven" from "reasonably secure offsite
   storage"?

Right now, that's easy.  Data havens don't exist, and prototype code
for reasonably secure off-site storage does.

The key distinguishing feature of off-site storage is that it stores
data only as bits, structured and segmented, but not interpreted _as_
anything but bits.  A data haven, on the other hand, holds things that
someone disapproves of, otherwise there's no need for a haven.  _A
fortiori_, if someone disapproves of it, it must mean something.  Raw
bits don't mean anything, or rather, they can mean everything.

Eric