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Satoshi Nakamoto https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2008-November/014823.html satoshi at vistomail.com Thu Nov 6 15:15:40 EST 2008 Previous message: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Internet Transaction Security on Your Key Chain Next message: ADMIN: no money politics, please Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
[Lengthy exposition of vulnerability of a systm to use-of-force monopolies ellided.]
You will not find a solution to political problems in cryptography.
Yes, but we can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years.
Governments are good at cutting off the heads of a centrally controlled networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks like Gnutella and Tor seem to be holding their own.
Satoshi
(NOTE: It is unknown who this comment by satoshi is in reply to, but it fits as a reply to James A donald. Wuith that said there is no verification of this on the mailing list, so it could have been in reply to someone elses now missing message?)