The killer app for encryption
James A. Donald
jamesd at echeque.com
Thu Dec 18 10:47:14 PST 2003
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Encryption is a defense against threats. For people to adopt
encryption, they need to be threatened.
All businessmen are guilty of insider trading and destruction
of evidence. In consequence all businessmen use encrypted vpn
internally within companies, but not, however, in external
communications, rendering a public key infrastructure quite
useless. For widespread tax evasion to take off, we would like
widespread use of public keys.
Now the entire population is guilty of file trading. Pretty
soon, therefore, the entire population will be using
encryption, but it is far from clear that this encryption will
enable all the potential uses of encryption that cypherpunks
foresaw.
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James A. Donald
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