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Demand for strong cryto
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Wed Mar 19 23:13:42 1997
From: jamesd@echeque.com (James A. Donald)
To: cryptography@c2.net
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 03:24:44 GMT
At 11:27 AM 3/19/97 -0400, Michael C Taylor wrote:
> 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?
FedEx's parcel management program, probably used by most businesses in
the US and a great many private individuals, requires strong
encryption to communicate with FedEx.
Recently I saw Ricochet's shop display. They sell a cell phone
internet connection. Encryption was the fourth point in their list of
selling points, indicating that the masses are worried about people
listening in on cell phone conversations, cloning cell phones, etc.
Of course once the stuff gets on the internet, it is open to all
comers, but clearly people are concerned.
Similarly security is a part of DCOM, and many of you are using DCOM
without knowing it. This security is a pain, and causes things to go
wrong with great regularity, but programmers mostly do not disable it,
presumably because security counts, even amongst the masses.
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