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Re: Top Pentagon Official
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Kellar)
Fri Jul 31 16:34:46 1998
From: tkellar@fsp.fsp.com (Thomas Kellar)
To: cryptography@c2.net
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 15:25:38 -0400 (EDT)
I understand Stephen's position and agree with the need for
accuracy but feel that the interpretation was on the money.
I had a thought though. Maybe it is a rehashed old thought
though, if so, please forgive me.
Say my imaginary cousin in Australia and I invent a language
based on some non-protoindoeuropean grammer. It is a genuine
language with syntax and grammer and so on. Say we called it
Arcturan. (Instead of Navaho.) Say we talked back and forth
in Arcturan exclusively. Now, no one can understand it,
and no one can decrypt it. Do we have to give a dictionary
to the FBI/NSA in order to keep them from getting mad? Do
they have a _right_ to understand our language?
Thomas
>At 04:25 PM 7/30/98 -0400, you wrote:
>> Pentagon: No Right to Secrecy
>>by Michael Stutz
>>
>>6:45pm 29.Jul.98.PDT The Pentagon's top civil servant believes that no
>>two people in the world have a "God-given right" to communicate in
>>total secrecy, according to information made public this week.
>Do we know where this information is posted?
>In the quotes provided by Stutz, Hamre does not actually say what Stutz
>claims, he does suggest there is no "God-given, inherent right to send the
>strongest encryption to anybody in the world, no matter who they are."
>Hamre also says:
>>"I do not believe that it's more important to protect ourselves
>>against terrorists if it means it comes at the expense of civil
>>liberties in the United States,"
>I am not defending Hamre, merely observing that we will never get anywhere
>in this debate if we over-state or mis-state what the various parties are
>saying.
>Respectfully...Stephen
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