Re: DES cracker built

Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de)
Mon, 20 Jul 1998 11:19:22 +0100

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Bruce Schneier wrote:

> "Producing a workable policy for encryption has proven a very hard
> political challenge. We believe that it will only be possible to
> craft good policies if all the players are honest with one another and
> the public," said John Gilmore, EFF co-founder and project leader.

I previously argued that because of the inherent insecurity of the
internet and consequently the impossibility of providing unambigious
proofs of messages being sent by two commmunication partners that
crypto laws cannot correctly work. See my article

   An Alternative Argumentation to Rivest's Chaffing and Winnowing
   (http://www.stud.uni-muenchen.de/~mok-kong.shen/#paper3)

M. K. Shen

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