Comment A Crypto-Digital Revolution (Score 1) 302
In an Eutopian society, Politics and Government don't mix, neither do Academics and State Secrets. We are not, by any means, living in such a society. All this aside....
Ideas spawned in public institutions or in the minds of academics, novelists (who have inspired many a usuable invention through fiction) or anyone else for that matter are not normally censured in this way.
It seems irrational that everyone is so dependant on US sources for "techincal support" on crypto routines, but to achieve a common PGP style interface for all, it is logical to expect everyone to have the same encoding / decoding to be able to use the "envelope". And as many of the common operating systems development (besides OpenBSD, BEOS etc) reside in the US it would imply that the technology would have to be "imported" to be integrated into the OS before it could be "exported" again...SAME PROBLEM....
The crunch being, in a society where something is oppressed by law (like my homeland used to be) it takes a revolution / a few casualties / a few martyrs / and years in jail to finally overcome such restrictive legislation.
After reading a good number of the postings, it is clear that the only way to open this up would be for someone to actually break the law....The law itself seems to be so open to interpretation that there would be no way for a US citizen to offer assistance, technical or otherwise.
So what do you do...Wear a T-Shirtwith a PGP Algorithm printed on it???? You all know where that gets you.......
Ideas spawned in public institutions or in the minds of academics, novelists (who have inspired many a usuable invention through fiction) or anyone else for that matter are not normally censured in this way.
It seems irrational that everyone is so dependant on US sources for "techincal support" on crypto routines, but to achieve a common PGP style interface for all, it is logical to expect everyone to have the same encoding / decoding to be able to use the "envelope". And as many of the common operating systems development (besides OpenBSD, BEOS etc) reside in the US it would imply that the technology would have to be "imported" to be integrated into the OS before it could be "exported" again...SAME PROBLEM....
The crunch being, in a society where something is oppressed by law (like my homeland used to be) it takes a revolution / a few casualties / a few martyrs / and years in jail to finally overcome such restrictive legislation.
After reading a good number of the postings, it is clear that the only way to open this up would be for someone to actually break the law....The law itself seems to be so open to interpretation that there would be no way for a US citizen to offer assistance, technical or otherwise.
So what do you do...Wear a T-Shirtwith a PGP Algorithm printed on it???? You all know where that gets you.......
