Maybe just increasingly concerned that our right-wing politicians are going to attempt to pass laws restricting crypto further and make it easier to intercept and read/listen to electronic communications. In fact US senators have already proposed requiring backdoors in crypto for law enforcement (senator from NH) as well as allowing for interception of net traffic without warrant (Senator Feinstein as one of the authors). I'd strongly recommend US citizens write their representatives and express their desire that our elected officials stop, think and don't respond to this week's events in a knee-jerk fashion. As the DMCA has shown, its very difficult to overturn bad legislation once it has passed. Its amazing how fast some people will lay aside civil liberties in order to gain some "perceived" security. The short-sightedness of our (US) politicians and the general US public never ceases to amaze me. Sorry, hope this isn't even further off-topic though it is important that we try to strike down any pending anti-crypto legislation before it gains momentum. Cheers, Keith On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 12:55, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote: > > ...hope this is not too off-topic... > > ...this maybe just coincidence and/or caused by other reasons (maybe some > well read web referee?)... but it seems that after the US-event of > 09/11/2001 the accesses went up for 2 prominent cryptographic linux > packages; are we getting more paranoid? > > see > > loop-aes > https://sourceforge.net/project/stats/?group_id=28891 > > cryptoapi > https://sourceforge.net/project/stats/?group_id=30957 > > ..any ideas? > > regards, -- <><><><><><><><><><><><> Keith Clayton keith@xxxxxxxxxxxx "If you don't trust me with your source code, why should I trust you with my computer?" GPG key: http://home.pacbell.net/clay-ton/keith_public_key.html http://www.keyserver.net GPG fingerprint: 33FF 1D80 4562 1600 4BAB 5018 BCB7 635C B0CC 99EE
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