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To: Hank Kerchief
it has the capacity to be as private as you want it to be

Talk about an alternate reality. Numerous combinations of just three letters can beat PGP!

NOTHING on the net is private. Public encryption is sufficient only against the public. States are not restrained by law, economics or technology.

76 posted on 05/29/2005 4:35:26 PM PDT by antidisestablishment (Our people perish through lack of wisdom, but they are content in their ignorance.)
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To: antidisestablishment
Public encryption is sufficient only against the public. States are not restrained by law, economics or technology.

You mean they can use rubber-hose cryptanalysis?

77 posted on 05/29/2005 4:47:20 PM PDT by A. Pole (Mandarin Meng-tzu: "The duty of the ruler is to ensure the prosperous livelihood of his subjects.")
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