re organized lobbying for cryptography in article c uprt gmq dcs ed ac uk pdc dcs ed ac uk paul crowley writes perhaps these encryption only types would defend the digitized porn if it was posted encrypted these issues are not as seperable as you maintain in fact since effective encryption makes censorship impossible they are almost the same issue and they certainly fall into the brief of the eff it also falls within the purview of the aclu but that doesn t mean the aclu or the eff would be the most effective instrument to win the hearts and minds in favor of access to cryptography it s precisely slogans like cryptography makes censorship impossible which stand to torpedo any attempt to generate a broad consensus in favor of encryption it is not true and in the context of a public debate it would be a dangerous red herring advocates of strong crypto had better prepare themselves to answer such charges in pragmatic terms that laypeople and politicians can sympathize with the usual mumblings about constitutional amendments are not enough tal kubo math harvard edu
