Re: The Cost of Snakeoil (was Re: John Gilmore and the Great Internet Snake Drive)

Richard Storey (@earthlink.net)
Tue, 21 Jul 1998 11:58:22 -0400

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Distilling Hettinga's comments on DES seems to reveal a desire for
avulsion of credibility from the hands of government for reliable
encryption standards for industrial use, thereby, weakening the state's
claim for controlling it via limitations and, further, to reveal the
state's disingenuous assertions of fighting crime as its premise. There
seems to be a certain glee in his remarks.

Richard Storey

Rich Salz wrote:
>
> I think it is useful to distinguish between snake oil -- something that
> never really worked -- and obsolete.
>
> I'd go even strong -- it does a disservice to our community to mix up
> the two concepts.
> /r$

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