From: "Charles Choi (SAR)" <choi@virtu.sar.usf.edu>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 11:55:51 +0800
To: Jim_Miller@bilbo.suite.com
Subject: Signature
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Delurking beginner...
1)	Is it possible to base a privacy key ( e.g. PGP ) on a fractal 
		equation, instead of an algorithm based on two primes?  
		This would allow for an eternal level of complexity due 
		to infinite field of depth one can find as one 'zooms in' 
		closer ( correct me because I'm wrong; I'm not a math major,
		although increasingly I wish I was... ), allowing for near
		unbreakable privacy of information.
2)	It is dead certain that our governments will want at their disposal 
		a decrypt program to crack into data containing information
		possibly related to crimes ( or what not ).  Perhaps access 
		to this program can somehow be leased out like a search warrant
		by a judge, which at least means a check and balance, and any 
		unauthorized use of the program ( perhaps when it cracks into 
		encryptext [ what I call ciphertext, as opposed to uncryptext, 
		or plaintext ;) ] it leaves a very characteristic signature, or 
		cracking into the database that contains the program is near
		impossible; maybe it's not physically connected to the 
		Internet until the warrant is granted ) results in punishment,
		of course.
Back to lurking...
	 
							Sincerely.
							Quentin Holte.
							( aka Charles Choi. ) 
							
							You are all the Buddha.
								- Last words
								  of Buddha.

							If you see the Buddha,
                                            		             kill him.
                                                                - Zen proverb.