From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 23:28:36 +0800
To: Carl Ellison <gbroiles@c2.net>
Subject: Re: Crypto use to foil law enforcement?
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At 3:21 am -0400 on 5/23/97, Carl Ellison wrote:


> With the congress so woefully uninformed that they confuse password
> protection with cryptography and naive enough to believe that 1.9E6
> possibilities represents a serious roadblock to entry, it looks like we have
> a major education effort to perform.

For 35 years we've sown innumeracy, and now it's time to reap the harvest,
I'm afraid.

Heinlein once half-jokingly proposed that all voters have to prove they can
solve a quadratic before they can vote.

That joke's not so funny anymore.

Cheers,
Bob Hettinga

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