No Doubt, we are in the midst of the most unsettling period in the technological revolution. For many the technology itself is unfamiliar and frightening, but most importantly, the privacy problems posed are so different from those that have come before, there is no framework to deal with them. Technology is fast. The law, whether formed in tiny increments by individual cases or by the cumbersome legislative process, is slow. As a result, there is simply no comprehensive body of law established to deal with all

of the privacy concerns arising in the digital age.

If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy. Intelligence agencies have access to good cryptographic technology, so do the big arms and drug traffickers, defense contractors, oil companies, and other corporate giants. But ordinary people and grassroots political organizations mostly have no access to affordable "military grade" public-key cryptographic technology, until now. PGP empowers people to take their privacy into their own hands.

The government has conveniently overlooked the most important benefits of encryption. If everyone used encryption, there would be absolutely no way that an innocent bystander could happen upon something they choose not to see. Only the intended receiver of the data could decrypt and view its contents. Each coded message also has an encrypted signature verifying the sender's identity. The sender's secret key can be used to encrypt an enclosed signature message, thereby "signing" it. This creates a digital signature of a message, which the recipient can check by using the sender's public key to decrypt it. This proves that the sender was the true originator of the message, and that the message has not been subsequently altered by anyone else, because the sender alone possesses the secret key that made that signature. Gone would be the hate mail that causes so many problems, and gone would be the ability to forge a document with someone else's address. The government, if it did not have ulterior motives, should mandate encryption, not outlaw it.

One very well known example of this is the PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) scandal. PGP is a encryption program that was written by Phil Zimmerman, and is based on "public key" encryption. This system uses complex algorithms, or formulas, to produce two codes, one for encoding and one for decoding. To send an encoded message to someone, a copy of that person's "public" key is needed. The sender uses this public key to encrypt the data, and the recipient uses their "private" key to decode the message. As Zimmerman was finishing his program, he heard about a proposed Senate bill to ban cryptography, the science of secret writings and codes. This prompted him to release his program for free, hoping that it would become so popular that its use could not be stopped (http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/faq/questions.html). One of the origin

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