1995-01-18 - Re: Does encrypted equal safe?

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From: pstemari@erinet.com (Paul J. Ste. Marie)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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From: pstemari@erinet.com (Paul J. Ste. Marie)
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 95 16:04:13 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Does encrypted equal safe?
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At 01:28 PM 1/17/95 -0800, Eric Hughes wrote:
> ... Meaning is subjective.  If I see encrypted text, am I to be held
>responsible for having seen through an encryption for which I hold not
>the key?  Merely because someone knows a transformation into a
>disapproved form does not mean that I do. ...

Which is exactly why the encrypt on receipt or decrypt on delivery ideas 
won't work.  You have to be provably ignorant of the data.


    --Paul J. Ste. Marie
      pstemari@well.sf.ca.us, pstemari@erinet.com






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