From: "snow" <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 14:44:17 +0800
To: guy@panix.com (Information Security)
Subject: Re: cypherpunks and guns
In-Reply-To: <199801061912.OAA08946@panix2.panix.com>
Message-ID: <199801070740.BAA01846@smoke.suba.com>
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> #   128bit SSL module distribution *EVEN TO US CITIZENS* due to commerce
> #   department fuckedness.  Anyone know where I could get a copy?  It would
> #   really suck to have to patch the 40bit one into a 128bit version, since
> #   they do not distribute source.
> I don't know if this is the "module" form of the answer you want:
> http://www.replay.com/

	Nope, he wants the AOL SERVER, not browser

>    Tim May wrote:
>>   Final comment: If I find the motivation, I may finish an essay I've been
>>   working on about how we, the Cypherpunks and the World, are *retrogressing*
>>   in crypto areas. Most of the exotic applications are no longer being
>>   discussed, and various mundane commercial products are the main focus.
>    >   Yawn.
> How about moving this list to encrypt its transmissions in
> the recipient's public keys, just to begin encrypting Net traffic?

	At this point, there would be WAY too much overhead on the 3 or 
so servers that make up the cypherpunks mailing list. PGP encrypting every
message sent thru would take up a lot of CPU time.