[2335] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Rivest's Wheat & Chaff - A crypto alternative
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (C Matthew Curtin)
Mon Mar 23 19:35:47 1998
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 16:48:40 -0500 (EST)
From: C Matthew Curtin <cmcurtin@interhack.net>
To: "Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr@nfr.net>
Cc: William Hugh Murray <whmurray@sprynet.com>, Vin McClellan <vin@shore.net>,
"cryptography@C2.net" <cryptography@c2.net>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980323132339.006a03e4@mail.clark.net>
Reply-To: cmcurtin@interhack.net
>>>>> "mjr" == Marcus J Ranum <mjr@nfr.net> writes:
mjr> Has anyone considered approaching the NRA for support for
mjr> cryptography?? If it is a munition, isn't our right to use it
mjr> domestically protected under the second amendment, just like our
mjr> right to keep and bear arms?
I raised the question of cryptography's relationship to the US
Constitution's second amendment a few years ago on cypherpunks. Tim
May observed that the restrictions allowed on firearms are
significantly greater than the restrictions allowed on speech.
The result is that using the first amendment is stronger defense for
free cryptography than using the second amendment.
[Please direct followups to news:talk.politics.crypto ... I've now
taken the thread completely off-topic for this list. :-)]
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Matt Curtin cmcurtin@interhack.net http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/
