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It's also scary in that you can extend the premise of knowing the identity of all financial transactions, to anything that obfuscates identity. It wouldn't surp
by ablatt89 4y ago
It's also scary in that you can extend the premise of knowing the identity of all financial transactions, to anything that obfuscates identity. It wouldn't surprise me if Warren and the other anti-freedom nutters would argue for banning public key encryption, or enforce all key pair generations to be registered with some central database.
- onlyrealcuzzo 4y agoSince it's trivial to write the code to generate your own key pair - there might be a law, but like a lot of laws - it wouldn't actually have much impact and it would potentially have a ton of very negative side effects.
- DennisP 4y agoFortunately, public key crypto already had its big fight with the government, and now it's established that cryptographic source code is protected speech under the First Amendment. (Bernstein vs US)