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From: cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: Organized Lobbying for Cryptography
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Date: 29 Apr 93 16:39:32 GMT
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In article <rdippold.736035556@qualcom> rdippold@qualcomm.com (Ron "Asbestos" Dippold) writes:
>george@tessi.com (George Mitchell) writes:
>>Guns are offensive.  Cryptography is defensive.  See the difference?
>No.  They're both neutral.  Whether they're offensive or defensive
>depends on how you use them.

Nonsense.

Mike, in Heinlein's "Moon is a Harsh Mistress" decides that a weapon is some
mechanism which allows you to deliver energy at a distance.  (I don't
have the book handy or I'd find the exact quote).

Guns do that.

Cryptosystems do not.

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