From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@amaranth.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 11:39:34 -0800 (PST)
To: Matts Kallioniemi <matts@cyberpass.net>
Subject: Re: Why is cryptoanarchy irreversible?
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In <3.0b36.32.19961108144638.00a11c90@cyberpass.net>, on 11/08/96 at 02:46 PM,
   Matts Kallioniemi <matts@cyberpass.net> said:

>At 17:12 1996-11-07 -0800, jim bell wrote:
>>Simple analogy:  Suppose you put two people into a room with a deck of 
>>playing cards and a table, instructing "Person A" to build a house-of-cards, 
>>and telling "Person B" to stop him from achieving his goal.  Who do you 
>>think will win?  Obviously, the latter will win:  It's vastly easier to 
>>knock such a structure down than to build it in the first place,  and all 
>>"Person B" has to do is occasionally take a whack at the structure. 

>What if Person A is better armed? Could that change the outcome?

Well this takes you into the field of Game Theory which many books & papers have been writen on. :)

A close look at the cold war, deteriants, arm races, SALT treaties, ...ect. should give you some real world examples of how such mechanisims work.

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