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From: Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Re: Business
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 12:38:02 +1300
The encryption/decryption argument: Given the fact that shadowpunk deckers
can hide anything they want in the PRIVATE format and the star is unable to
use any of what passes through shadowland for investigations/convictions,
Shadowtk seems to have things set up so that encryption is more powerful
than decryption, i.e. x dollars/nuyen/research/work/whatever spent on
encryption will result in needing much more than x
dollars/nuyen/research/work/whatever to break that encryption. So if Farmer
and SIGA can apply approximately equal resources, encryption must win.

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