"Inman seemed to regard real, virile encryption to be something rather like a Saturday Night Special. 'My answer,' he said, 'would be legislation which would make it a criminal offense to use encrypted communication to conceal criminal activity.' "Wouldn't that render all encrypted traffic automatically suspect? I asked. "'Well,' he said, 'you could have a registry of institutions which can legally use ciphers. If you get somebody using one who isn't registered, then you go after him.'" - from John Perry Barlow's "Decrypting the Puzzle Palace",1992 [available online as ftp.eff.org, /pub/EFF/Policy/Crypto/decrypting_puzzle.palace].
