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Re: Dorothy and the four Horseman
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (A. Padgett Peterson P.E. Informati)
Wed Mar 19 13:28:03 1997
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 13:18:15 -0500 (EST)
From: "A. Padgett Peterson P.E. Information Security" <PADGETT@hobbes.orl.mmc.com>
To: mctaylor@mta.ca
CC: cryptography@c2.net
>Since the percentage of the population who use strong cryptography enough
>to thwart LEAs is tiny, why worry? I speculate it is less than 100
>people in US. How many people do you know, use strong encryption for the
>vast majority of their communications and activities?
The question is leading since few use it for "vast majority". Would say that
I personally receive about a megabyte a week in 10-20 messages that are
"strongly encrypted". Further, what do you call the
remote secure clients (Eagle, Checkpoint, V-One, TIS) for extra Intranet
connections ? Can count hundreds of using workstations myself and that
ability did not exist at all until mid-1996.
Since you are in .ca, what is the effect of the Canadian government's
decision to adopt ENTRUST ?
But the real explosion will come this year (might get pushed back to 1998)
when SET takes off.
Warmly,
Padgett
http://www.netmind.com/~padgett
